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Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

The politics of knife crime

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Sky News

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.0156 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton and guests discuss the political arguments associated with the rise in knife crime as Theresa May insists there is no direct correlation between 'certain crimes and police numbers.' With another Meaningful Vote on Brexit on the horizon, can Mrs May get her deal through the Commons? And what can we expect from the Chancellor's Spring Statement next week? Joining Adam this week are Sky's economics editor Ed Conway, Research Fellow for the Centre for Policy Studies Harriet Sergeant, Sky's political correspondent Tom Rayner and the Head of Sky Data Harry Carr.

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0:42.3

are the Research Fellow for the Centre of Policy Studies, Harriet Sargent, Sky News political

0:48.4

correspondent Tom Rainer, our economics editor Ed Conway and the head of Sky Data, Harry Carr.

0:55.8

And we're going to talk about public concern over knife crime

0:59.9

and also look ahead to next week's incredibly busy parliamentary session

1:05.0

with both the Chancellor's Spring Statement and possibly a final, set of votes on Brexit.

1:17.3

Going to start with knife crime, horrific stories daily in the news headlines of young people's lives ended by knives, but the government seemed a little

1:30.3

bit confused as to what was going wrong and what to do about it.

1:35.3

If you look at the figures, what you see is that there's no direct correlation between

1:40.3

certain crimes and police numbers. What matters is how we ensure that the police are

1:46.3

responding to these criminal acts when they take place, that people are brought to justice.

1:51.0

Police chiefs represented the seven largest forces with the biggest

1:56.0

increases in serious violence. They would all say resources are important and they've

2:00.0

welcomed the

2:00.9

billion pounds, increased the almost one billion this year, and I'm listening to them

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