The Labour leader’s underfunded pledges could be judged mission impossible, not mission plausible
Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Port Vale FC near Stoke as part of the Labour Party’s message on crime policy by the Privileges Committee on Wednesday, Keir Starmer tried to make some of the Partygate mud stick to Rishi Sunak.
Acutely aware that a rise in anti-social behaviour and failures to tackle violence against women is a growing issue for many voters, the Labour leader was right to point out that the poorest are the ones who suffer most from a broken criminal justice system. In tying his message to wider reforms of health, education, online regulation and community services, the echo of Tony Blair’s “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” was very deliberate.
This particular “mission” to make Britain’s streets safe now has some very detailed promises indeed. One of his four “clear, measurable goals” is to restore confidence in every police force to its “highest ever level”. A second is to reverse the collapse in the proportion of crimes solved.
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