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The Tories have let us down on law and order
Austerity, cuts and privatisation have devastated our justice system and put the public in danger, explains CHARLEY ALLAN
Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Home Secretary Priti Patel (right) at the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Convention Centre
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What the Tories don’t want you to know is that it’s actually their savage cuts to the criminal justice system and failed probation privatisation that have put the public at greater risk.
Everyone knows about the steep drop in police numbers, but at Prime Minister’s Questions back in March, Jeremy Corbyn revealed: “The number of rapes, murders and other serious crimes committed by offenders on parole has risen by more than 50 per cent since the privatisation of the probation service was introduced four years ago.”
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