Political figures to debate immigration, law and order on Channel 4 News special
The Channel 4 News special The UK Decides: Immigration, Law and Order, will kickoff at 6:30pm presented by Krishnan Guru-Murphy.
Chris Philp, the Home Office Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds, a shadow Cabinet Minister, Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper, Carla Denyer the Green co-party leader, Reform UK chairman Richard Tice, SNP deputy leader Keith Brown and Rhun ap Iorwerth, lead of PLAID CYMRU will be grilled by a live studio audience.
The event in Colchester will last 90 minutes.
Key events
Cooper said social media companies would be required to regularly publish what they are doing to address the issue of abuse against women. The Lib Dems would have a domestic abuse expert in every single police force.
Brown said Scotland is on the way to making misogyny a specific crime.
Thomas-Symonds said three in 100 reported rapes results in a charge and advocates specialist courts.
Rhun ap Iorwerth advocates a victims commissioner and more power for Wales over policing.
On the safety of women and girls, Denyer said the Greens would make it a priority and police would be properly trained to deal with domestic violence. They would also make misogyny a hate crime.
Cooper said there is a place for stop and search based on intelligence, not profiling.
Denyer said the Greens would stop the “routine use of stop and search”, only if there is suspicion.
She said research shows black people are more likely to be stopped and searched than other groups.
Tice said knife crime has almost trebled and there are less police officers across England and Wales. He also calls for more stop and searches.
SNP deputy leader Brown said police officers should be paid more in England, as they are in Scotland. He again brings up the £18 billion worth of cuts warnings from independent experts.
Thomas-Symonds said the Conservatives are failing on protecting communities. He accuses Philp of “boasting” about the violent crime reduction figures and being out of touch. He also calls for the restoration of neighborhood policing and Labour will put 13,000 officers on the streets.
On how to tackle crime, Philp said since 2010 violent crime has come down by 44% but “we need to go further”.
He said he believes in stop and search, early interventions and investing in “hotspot policing”.
The programme starts with some poll results.
On which parties have the policies for reducing crime, a Savanta poll found 35% said Labour followed by the Tories (20%) then Reform (12%).
Political figures to debate immigration, law and order on Channel 4 News special
The Channel 4 News special The UK Decides: Immigration, Law and Order, will kickoff at 6:30pm presented by Krishnan Guru-Murphy.
Chris Philp, the Home Office Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds, a shadow Cabinet Minister, Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper, Carla Denyer the Green co-party leader, Reform UK chairman Richard Tice, SNP deputy leader Keith Brown and Rhun ap Iorwerth, lead of PLAID CYMRU will be grilled by a live studio audience.
The event in Colchester will last 90 minutes.