How many times will the Tories repeat their ‘crime is down’ lie?
Suella Braverman: here, we see her displaying her usual understanding of the issues before her – brow furrowed, mouth twisted in a sneer… completely lost.
This is Home Secretary Suella Braverman, speaking today (March 27):
Suella Braverman – "I'm proud of what Conservatives have achieved since 2010… overall crime, excluding fraud, is down by 50%"
By excluding the inconvenient part. pic.twitter.com/AOAEGtvbSb
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) March 27, 2023
This is misleading.
I say it’s misleading because, while it may be true, fraud is a crime. Include it and crime has increased by more than half. I know because I checked the official figures last week.
You may remember Andrew Bowie coming out with a similar lie on the BBC’s Question Time show:
I then debunked this falsehood on This Site:
The change from 4,150,916 crimes in the 2010-11 financial year (remember the Tories came to office in May 2010) to 6,300,968 by March 2022 is an increase – a rise – of more than 51 per cent.
This is the point. Bowie flat-out lied, or got it badly wrong. Braverman was trying to get us to believe something equally misleading.
Because crime isn’t down.
It has increased hugely.
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