Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of being behind a “perfect storm” making communities feel unsafe as he places the fight against crime at the centre of Labour’s local election campaign.
The Labour leader said Boris Johnson and his Government “do one thing and say another” as the Prime Minister faces the prospect of being fined for allegedly breaching his own lockdown laws.
Ahead of visiting a Labour police and crime commissioner in Sunderland on Monday, Sir Keir shared figures suggesting violent youth crime has cost £11 billion since the Conservatives took office.
