Home Secretary Priti Patel: Tories the ‘party of law and order once again’
Written by News on 01/10/2019
Priti Patel is addressing the Conservative Party conference, with the home secretary set to warn criminals that “we are coming after you”.
Ms Patel began her speech by claiming the party has reclaimed its “rightful place as the party of law and order in Britain once again”.
Ms Patel will say: “As we renew our place as the party of law and order in Britain, let the message go out from this hall today: To the British people – we hear you.
“To the police service: We back you.
“And to the criminals, I simply say this: We are coming after you.”
Speaking on day three of the party’s annual conference in Manchester, Ms Patel:
- Pledged to renew efforts to tackle county lines drug gangs, including funding for technology to look at number plate data and setting up a dedicated team inside the British Transport Police.
- Said the government will establish a £25m “Safer Streets Fund” to provide resources for measures like CCTV and street lights.
- Promised to give police chiefs backing to “dramatically” increase the number of officers carrying tasers on the beat.
“We are coming after the thugs, gangs, and criminals who make law-abiding people’s lives a misery,” Ms Patel added.
“I have the backs of all of the police officers who put their lives on the line day in, day out to keep us all safe and am giving them the tools to do their job.
“We are delivering on the public’s priorities while Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne Abbott side with the criminals.”
Ms Patel, the daughter of Ugandan Asians, also told delegates: “Margaret Thatcher knew that if you made the British people your compass, if you took time to understand their lives and their priorities, then your direction would always be true.
“This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London metropolitan liberal elite on how our country is enriched by – and better for – being internationalist.”
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