Kemi Badenoch has revealed to GB News that she going out alone late at night is rare for her as she voiced concern over the rising wave of crime across Britain.
The Conservative Party leader admitted she also “worries a lot” about the kind of society her children are being brought up in.
Dawn Neesom asked her about the growing concern among British women who no longer feel safe walking the streets, amid alarming UK sex crime statistics.
Asked if she herself feels safe walking the streets of London, Badenoch told GB News: “Not recently, no. But I have a different life.
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Kemi Badenoch has expressed fears amid Britain’s crime wave
“I remember feeling like that when I was a lot younger. I don’t go out on my own late at night.
“I have two daughters, I’ve got a 12-year-old who walks to school by herself and even during the daytime, I worry a lot. My five-year-old is under adult supervision at all times.
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“I worry about the kind of society we are creating for them. Also my son, when you look at young men these days, they are more likely to be victims of crime. Not sexual assault, but different types of crime.
“We need to get our streets safe. That’s why we need more police doing core policing, the kind of old school, common sense policing we all understood. Not policing tweets.”
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Badenoch joined Dawn Neesom on GB News
Dawn Neesom asked whether she agreed with Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, who said on Chopper’s Political Podcast that ordinary Britons should, in some cases, confront crime directly themselves.
Badenoch said she would tackle crime herself if she felt safe enough to do so and was not looking after children.
“There’s an assumption that only the police should carry out that activity, there is such thing as a citizens’ arrest”, she said.
“We need society to get involved. There is no shame in shoplifting now, it appears. People see it as something they can get away with, not because of the police, but they think nobody cares.
“As a society, we need to show that we do care about this. If we allow a lot of low level crime to just go away and go unpunished, we’re only going to see more of it.”
Knife attacks in London climbed to 16,344 incidents over the twelve months ending in March, marking a nine per cent rise from the 14,939 cases documented in the preceding period. T
he Metropolitan Police and City of London Police data reveals that bladed weapons featured in 13 per cent of serious criminal activity across the capital.
Despite this surge in knife-related offences, the number of killings dropped to 104, representing a nine per cent decline from 114 deaths the year before. Among the knife crimes recorded were 57 homicides and 71 attempted killings.
Robberies involving blades accounted for more than 10,000 incidents, where perpetrators either threatened victims or caused injuries with knives.
London now bears responsibility for nearly one-third of all knife attacks across England and Wales, according to Office for National Statistics data released last Thursday. The capital’s share of this violent crime category significantly exceeds its population proportion.
