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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'Don't demonise' young Londoners, Reform's Zia Yusuf warned as he backs far more stop and search to cut knife crime

Scotland Yard should be given “vasty expanded” stop and search powers to tackle knife crime in London, says Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf.

He also called for areas in the capital suffering from high knife crime to be flooded with Met Police officers under “saturation policing” in “zero tolerance” crackdowns.

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