It stands to reason that lives will have been needlessly lost due to the Government’s seven-year failure to outlaw machetes and so-called zombie knives.
Had they been outlawed earlier, some parents may not be mourning lost children and Suella Braverman would not be unveiling yet more plans for a ban.
Four previous Tory Home Secretaries – Theresa May in 2016, Amber Rudd in 2017, Sajid Javid in 2018 and Priti Patel in 2021 – did the same and never followed through.
