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BBC Verify Over to the south east now, where Rishi Sunak has been meeting and greeting voters, joined by his wife Akshata Murty.
Anthony Reuben His latest campaign appearance comes after he announced plans to re-introduce mandatory national service if he wins the upcoming general election.
Earlier on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she showed James The PM said the policy would help unite society in an "increasingly uncertain world" and give young people a "shared sense of purpose".
Cleverly figures stating that knife crime in England and Wales was up by 7%. Here's a few snaps from today's visit:
The Home Secretary responded that “if you take Labour-run
London out of the equation, then that figure would be down”, and he pointed his
finger down.
He wrote a letter to the Mayor of London in January making
the same point – saying that if London was taken out of the figures, there
would have been a slight overall reduction in knife crime in England and Wales.
It was true then for the year to the end of September 2023,
but since he wrote that letter, the figures for the whole of 2023 have been released, and it no longer seems to be the case.
Knife crime in England and Wales was up 7% in 2023, while it was up 22% in Metropolitan Police areas. In England and Wales excluding London,
it was up by 3%, according to the Office for National Statistics.
But for statistical reasons, those official figures exclude
Greater Manchester Police areas, so we can’t say for sure.
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