CRIME is out of control, according to the majority of people quizzed in a survey.
The damning poll, published today, lays bare a shocking lack of confidence in the Government and police to keep us safe.
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The bombshell survey reveals Reform UK boss Nigel Farage is more trusted than the PM or Tory leader Kemi Badenoch on every single question about tackling crime.
Voters think sky-high immigration and failure to integrate those coming here are fuelling the crimewave.
The shocking findings will spark alarm in Sir Keir Starmer’s team, which is under massive pressure to get a grip on law and order.
Britain has been plagued by gangs of criminals on bikes snatching mobile phones, brazenly shoplifting, and stealing jewellery and watches.
‘Lawless country’
Earlier this month, 24-year-old Blue Stevens was stabbed to death in London’s Knightsbridge.
The Survation poll, for Friderichs Advisory Partners, found 49 per cent of people thought Britain was “becoming a lawless country”.
Just 35 per cent of the 2,000 adults quizzed disagreed.
Meanwhile, 56 per cent said they believed that crime had risen over the past five years.
Voters were asked about nine different crimes and whether they thought they were “out of control”.
Shockingly, a majority answered yes to all nine crimes.
These were: violent crime, knife crime, burglary, theft, drugs, vandalism, cybercrime, sex offences and gangs.
Some 74 per cent said knife crime was “out of control” and 60 per cent said the same of violent crime.
For theft it was 70 per cent, for drug-related crimes 69 per cent, and for burglary 55 per cent.
Asked what caused the crimewave, immigration came out top, with 22 per cent blaming the migrant crisis.
Next came “economic inequality” at 20 per cent, then “lenient sentencing” at 17 per cent.
Worryingly for the PM, the survey also revealed that people have lost faith in the state when it comes to maintaining law and order.
Some 52 per cent do not think Starmer can fix things, saying that Labour was performing “poorly” on tackling crime.
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Similarly, some 57 per cent said they are “not confident” the Government can tackle crime.
Farage was seen as more trusted than Starmer or Badenoch when it came to fighting crime.
Asked which political leader they trust most to maintain law and order, 27 per cent replied Farage. Starmer was next on 21 per cent and Badenoch was third on just 14 per cent.
STABBER’S 59 CRIMES
A CRIMINAL convicted of 59 offences was jailed for just 33 months after plunging a blade into the neck of a customer in a pharmacy.
Alexander Davidson, 38, walked up to the man waiting for his prescription and stabbed him in a desperate craze for heroin and crack cocaine.
Liverpool crown court heard he had previously assaulted someone with a dart and stabbed his father during a row over a mobile phone.
The thug’s 34 previous convictions date back to 2003 — including a suspended prison sentence for unlawful wounding in 2013, a 30-month stretch for assault causing actual bodily harm and five years for drug trafficking offences in 2007.
Sentencing him, Recorder William Beardmore said: “You could have easily severed the carotid artery or jugular vein.
“That would have killed him, and you would have been facing an allegation of murder. You should regard yourself as exceptionally lucky.”
Farage also came up trumps on tackling migrant offenders.
Some 37 per cent thought Farage was more likely to deport foreign criminals, while 17 per cent backed Starmer and 11 per cent Badenoch.
Quizzed on which political leader they trusted to make Britain safer, Farage was again top on 29 per cent, Starmer second on 20 per cent, and Badenoch last again on 12 per cent.
Daniel Friderichs, founder of Friderichs Advisory Partners, said: “It is clear there is only one politician in town that the British people trust to restore law and order — and it isn’t Keir Starmer or Kemi Badenoch.”
Worryingly, the poll also found that trust in the police’s ability to catch criminals was at rock bottom.
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One in five said they or a member of their family had been a victim of crime in the past year.
But of these, 18 per cent did not bother to call the police because they had no faith they would catch the criminals or take the crimes seriously.
The Labour Government made tackling crime one of its top five priorities when it was elected last year.
‘Lenient sentencing’
But police chiefs have furiously accused the Government of failing to fund forces properly.
A row exploded earlier this year when Chancellor Rachel Reeves agreed to hand police another £2billion a year.
Top cops had been publicly demanding more, and the National Police Chief Council said the failure to stump up cash threw Labour’s promises to hire another 13,000 neighbourhood officers into doubt.
LABOUR IS FAILING COUNTRY
By Nigel Farage, Reform Leader
THIS new polling confirms what many of us already knew — Britain has become a lawless country.
It lays bare the lack of faith the British people have in Labour to make our streets and communities safe. And it’s not hard to understand the reasons why.
Total crime is now 50 per cent higher than it was in the 1990s. Police no longer investigate or attend shoplifting or theft.
Violent repeat offenders are released early and two-tier policing has completely eroded trust.
People feel that Keir Starmer is not tough on crime and he goes easy on the criminals. As for Conservatives, they have broken Britain and their own brand is broken, too.
They are no longer the party of law and order. The decline that we see today began during their 14 failed years in office.
Successive Tory governments cut thousands of police officers but oversaw an explosion in the population.
It is clear to me that they should be in hiding for the damage they have done and must simply never be forgiven.
Reform UK will fix broken Britain and restore law and order in our country. The British people deserve nothing less.
This is a topic you’ll be hearing a lot more about from us over the next few days and weeks.
Career criminals will be put on notice. This is a national emergency and, after years of complacency by the other parties, it’s clear that lawless Britain needs Reform.
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