Is Keir Starmer soft on crime?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Kate Andrews and Katie Boots. |
| 0:25.9 | So Katie today was the first Prime Minister's questions |
| 0:28.7 | since the start of the new parliamentary term. How was that? |
| 0:32.0 | So you had Kierstarma going in on crime and I think what's interesting is both |
| 0:36.5 | Labour and the Tories seem to rather should the chance to talk about crime. |
| 0:39.9 | It's an area where clearly Labour think that they can have the lead on it. |
| 0:44.0 | And if you look at policy polling it looks so that actually reflects where the polls are |
| 0:48.4 | in terms of which party voters think is the strongest on the issue. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, I think the Tories do think that they've got a lot they can attack Kierstarma with on crime. |
| 0:57.5 | So the attackers last week ultimately is suggesting soft sentencing. |
| 1:02.4 | I didn't really see like what to talk about this text specifically, that's not his plan. |
| 1:06.9 | But I think around that they think where Kierstarma has had a role in terms of sentencing guidelines |
| 1:14.0 | if you look at his legal past they've got a lot they can throw back at Labour |
| 1:18.2 | and you've got a flavour of that in the sense although Kierstarma is going on the offensive |
| 1:23.0 | of that so Richie's in it had quite a lot of him wanted to throw back and we also got a new name |
| 1:27.6 | which is Sir Softy. Since 2010, since 2010, crime down by 50% under the conservative government |
| 1:36.8 | is to speak up. 20,000 more police officers, we've given them more powers and we've toughened |
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