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Tories 'party of law and order once again', Home Secretary Priti Patel claims – Sky News, Sky.com

Tories 'party of law and order once again', Home Secretary Priti Patel claims – Sky News, Sky.com


             

Home Secretary Priti Patel has claimed that the Conservatives are “the party of law and order once again”, as she unveiled a number of measures designed to present the Tories as tough on crime.

Addressing the party’s annual conference in Manchester amid the looming prospect of a general election, Ms Patel said the government was “coming after the thugs, gangs, and criminals who make law-abiding people’s lives a misery”.

She added: “I have the backs of all of the police officers who put their lives on the line day in, day out to keep us all safe and am giving them the tools to do their job.

  

File photo 26/02/13 of a police officer demonstrating the use of a Taser as a majority of the public think it is acceptable for police to carry Tasers when on patrol, a survey suggests.

      

Image:        The home secretary wants to equip up to 60% of police officers with Tasers      

“We are delivering on the public’s priority while Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott side with the criminals.”

The home secretary continued: “As we renew our place as the party of law and order in Britain, let the message go out from this hall today: To the British people – we hear you.

“To the police service: We back you.

“And to the criminals, I simply say this: We are coming after you.”

The home secretary said that government plans to recruit 20, 000 extra police officers was “just the start”.

In her speech , Ms Patel:

  • Pledged to renew efforts to tackle county lines drug gangs, including £ 20 m of funding for technology to look at number plate data and setting up a dedicated team inside the British Transport Police;
  • Announced a £ 10 m ring-fenced fund to equip up to 60% of police officers with Tasers;
  • Promised a £ 25 m “Safer Streets Fund” to provide resources for measures like CCTV and street lights;
  • Repeated the g overnment’s promise to end freedom of movement from the EU and introduce an Australian-style points system for immigration.

She said Boris Johnson’s government was “driven by the people’s priority”, adding: “From crime, to immigration, to leaving the European Union, we are ready to listen and to do what they want. “

Referencing the current Brexit impasse, Ms Patel said much of the British public was “losing faith in politics and politicians” because Britain’s EU exit has yet to be delivered.

The home secretary said the “euphoria and optimism” of the referendum day had “given way to frustration and anger as a group of politicians led by Jeremy Corbyn think they know better”.

She claimed that the Labor leader and other opposition leaders have “done everything possible to stand in the way of democracy, ignoring the will of the people”.

On the government immigration stance, Ms Patel said she had a “particular responsibility” at a “defining moment in our country history” to end freedom of movement “once and for all”.

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She added: “This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London metropolitan liberal elite.”

In a speech peppered with attacks on Labor, the home secretary claimed her opposite number Diane Abbott would “leave our communities and our country less safe” and “stop the police from doing their job”.

But the Liberal Democrats said it took “some gall for Priti Patel to describe the Conservatives as the party of law and order “.

” This Conservative government has just been found to have acted unlawfully by the Supreme Court. Now Boris Johnson is now threatening to break the law again by refusing to extend Article 50, “the party’s home affairs spokeswoman Christine Jardine said.

  

Prime Minister Boris Jonhson walks with Home Secretary Priti Patel at the Conservative Party conference

      

Image:        Boris Johnson and Priti Patel at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester      

“If the Tories want to talk about law and order, they should start by following the law and ruling out a disastrous no-deal Brexit that their own analysis shows will lead to a rise in public disorder.”

The Police Federation of England and Wales said it “cautiously welcomed” a number of pledges from the home secretary, including better protection for officers, tougher sentences for those who attack them and a covenant to enshrine their welfare in law and provide them with priority NHS treatment.

National chairman John Apter said: “It is clear that policing is now back on the political agenda so we must now see the warm words turned into action.

“I will play my part in helping the government to turn their support into action.

” But the Prime Minister must be aware that broken promises will not be forgiven. “

    
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