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Tories' headline-grabbing initiative backfires
It was meant as a headline-grabbing, agenda-setting declaration of the Conservative Party’s intention to be tough on crime, while at the same time illustrating to the ever-important youth vote their knowledge of the latest must-watch television show. But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling’s...
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- News Source: The Independent | 3 months agoThings have a habit of going embarrassingly awry when politicians descend to populism. So Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, should have known better than pursue an easy headline by comparing parts of Britain to the gang and drug infested...
- News Source: The Independent | 3 months agoSince Labour came to power, the level of violent crime in Britain has risen dramatically, by 70 per cent. Gun crime is up by more than half and there are more than 100 serious knife crimes each day. Under Labour, fatal stabbings reached the highest...
- News Source: The Observer | 3 months agoLast December I was treated for a tonsillar abscess at an emergency clinic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I commented to the doctor on how quickly I had been treated. "Hey," he replied gruffly, "if you wanna be bumped down the list all night by gunshot...
- News Source: The Independent | 3 months agoIt was meant as a headline-grabbing, agenda-setting declaration of the Conservative Party’s intention to be tough on crime, while at the same time illustrating to the ever-important youth vote their knowledge of the latest must-watch television...
- News Source: BBC | 3 months agoIt's a TV series featuring murderous villains, cynical politicians and corrupt, lazy detectives. Fans of The Wire say it's a realistic portrayal of American poverty, violence and hopelessness. But do the mean streets of Baltimore, Maryland, where the...
- News Source: Times Online | 3 months agoBritain’s inner-city streets resemble the violent districts of Baltimore as portrayed in the US television drama The Wire , the Conservatives claim. Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, will say today that the rise in violent crime — up by...
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