UK politics live: minister pushes back at Tory claims linking small boat arrivals to sexual crime | Politics

Good morning. In August, the parliament does not sit and when the domestic news is dry, the opposition parties often like to carry out campaigns. Reform British leader Nigel Farage follows this model with Gusto and today holds a press conference on a crime during the third week. The success of the reform in the surveys is almost completely completely completely completely immigrated and to defend harsh policies in order to reduce small boat transitions, and Farage is trying to associate this problem by arguing that asylum seekers are likely to be guilty.

The conservative party has no single contact for summer campaigns. (Yesterday was the campaign to campaign Badenoch About the uselessness of Liz Truss mini budgetbut in response to a one -night statement about the new measures to destroy small boat crossings overnight from the government overnight, they describe these immigrants as a threat to public security. In a statement published in one night Chris Philp“This weak workers’ government has lost control of our borders, and now we see rape and sexual assaults of illegal immigrants who have been reported daily.” And this morning in an interview about today’s program, Robert JenrickShadow Justice Secretary doubled this claim. He said:

I am afraid that illegal migration, migration in general and crime, especially there is an increasing evidence that there is a serious connection between sexual crime against women and girls.

In London, although 40% of last year, only 25% of the population, all sexual crimes were committed by foreign nationals.

And we see that we don’t have good data right now – some of the data we see are very striking. A British citizen is more likely to be convicted of a sexual crime of Afghans and Eritrea.

These are very shocking statistics.

Farag Recently to the new statesman, Interesting, long profile Written by Harry Lambert, he thought that Jenrick thought that he would go to the right to the right to “almost” about migration in the next election. Im I suspect that he will probably move further – this is my instinct for someone who wants to make noise, ”Farage said.

Angela EagleThe Minister of Border Safety and Asylum gives interviews this morning and suggested that there is no definite data to support Jenrick’s allegations in his program today. He said:

[Jenrick] In fact, they said we don’t have good data right now, and still claims a great certainty with the data point and I don’t know where he got them. So it is difficult for me to criticize in terms of a data. However, in this interview, he admitted that we had no good data.

When asked if Tories was asked if he thought he was “playing with fire” by tying the asylum seekers with sexual crime, Eagle replied:

I think we need to deal with all crimes, all sexual crimes, regardless of who maintains them. And we need to fall into violence against women and girls, so there’s Jess Phillips, a minister who actually does the whole job.

When asked if the possible connections between migration and crime were open to discussion, Eagle answered:

I don’t care to make discussions about anything, but I think we don’t have good data on this, and I think we should look at the principle. And this, with the guilt of human beings, whoever maintains it, we should handle it with an almost color blind.

If a girl has been abused by someone or exposed to a inferior sexual crime, it is not really important what the color of the perpetrator’s skin is.

As Eagle says, it is difficult to evaluate the truth about the connection between migration and crime, as the data is complex and limited in some angles. But a person who tries a researcher and scientist Emma Monk. Open Blog He recently published an analysis of the claim that some people who came to England on small boats were 20 times more likely to be guilty. This is a claim that Jenrick describes as “shocking .. Monk argues that using his words is shocking or “ridiculous on multiple fronts”. The whole task is worth reading, but that’s the result.

As you can see, the claim that the migrants coming to small boats were 24 times higher, the possibility of entering the prison was an easy manipulation of existing statistics. They may not be fully manufactured – they may indicate ‘official statistics’ to demand reliability – but in the same way wrong information.

A TOR MP informed a right -wing newspaper that has unquestioned this. This was taken by the rest of the right -wing media ecosystem and is now repeated on the Internet, dinner tables and garden fences in the minds of those who want to believe the 24x figure.

There are only two elements today.

11:00: Reform British leader Nigel Farage is holding a press conference.

11.30: The Downing Street has a lobby briefing.

(Reform UK Press Conferences for readers who continue to ask why we present, but the LIB dems or green parties, not the answer is simple; they do not hold at all.)

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