Nick Thomas-Symonds tells Labour conference he will not take money away from police forces The Conservatives were accused of "defunding the police" through a decade of cuts in a speech on Tuesday by the shadow home secretary which aimed to reposition Labour as the party of law and order. Nick Thomas-Symonds told delegates at the party's annual conference that he would not follow demands, usually attributed to the Black Lives Matter movement, to take money away from existing police forces.
Nick Thomas-Symonds tells Labour conference he will not take money away from police forces The Conservatives were accused of "defunding the police" through a decade of cuts in a speech on Tuesday by the shadow home secretary which aimed to reposition Labour as the party of law and order. Nick Thomas-Symonds told delegates at the party's annual conference that he would not follow demands, usually attributed to the Black Lives Matter movement, to take money away from existing police forces.
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