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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
John Rentoul

Voices: Britain isn’t broken, but people believe it is, and that is a big problem for Keir Starmer

Fraser Nelson, the former editor of The Spectator, the Conservative weekly, is having a remarkable afterlife as a great defender of the Labour government. He has gone head-to-head with Nigel Farage over the Reform leader’s claim that we are living in “lawless Britain”.

There is less crime in Britain today than there has been for decades, Nelson pointed out at one of Farage’s media conferences this week.

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