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Coffee House Shots

Reform turns tough on crime

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Farage has unveiled the party's policy proposals for tackling crime should they get into government. The Reform leader said that his entire policy platform would cost £17.4 billion, and suggested that a Reform government would introduce a 'three strikes' system for repeat serious offenders. Lucy Dunn speaks to James Heale and Tim Shipman about the policy pledges, how the Tories should respond and what Britain can do about its failing water industry.

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0:16.3

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by James Heel and Tim Shetman.

0:22.2

Reform have dominated headlines this morning as they kick off a six-week campaign on claim

0:26.1

and pledged to be the toughest party and law and order this country has ever seen.

0:30.7

Nigel Farage announced a number of policies in a London press this morning. Tim, you were there.

0:35.4

What did you make of them?

0:36.3

I'm still got my fluorescent wristband

0:39.3

that says Reform UK. Yes. I'm hot-footed back. I left before the press conference finished just to get

0:44.5

here. I mean, it was pretty robust stuff, but a lot of it, I think, will be kind of attractive to a lot

0:50.4

of voters. I mean, Farage talked about how a member of his family had their mobile phone

0:55.8

stolen at Victoria Station and how they tracked it and they found the address and the police

0:59.7

wouldn't go and do anything. Now, if the police aren't doing anything, even when Nigel Farage,

1:03.2

one of the most prominent politicians in the country, is saying it's literally a near mate.

1:07.6

I do think, you know, a lot of people will sympathise with the diagnosis that we've

1:11.9

got a bit of a problem here. I mean, this is a long campaign and they're going to get into

1:17.1

different aspects of it, but up front they've talked about. So Farage is channeling two

1:21.6

different people, Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, who had this zero

1:26.6

tolerance policing approach, the broken windows strategy, York, who had this zero-tolerance policing approach,

1:27.9

the broken windows strategy, where you go after everything at a low level, and you effectively,

1:34.0

you know, you chase the people smoking pot on the streets, you go after the phone thieves,

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