BBC Presenter Roasts Chris Philp Over 'Opportunistic' Knife Law Demand

Chris Philp A BBC presenter roasted a senior Tory over his demands for tougher knife laws in the wake of Saturday’s mass train stabbing attack.A train worker is “critical but stable” following the horrific incident on board an east coast main line train between Doncaster and London.A 32 year-old man, described as black and British, is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has called for greater use of “stop and search” to get more weapons off the streets.But Anna Foster, a presenter on Radio 4′s Today programme, pointed out that he was the police minister up until last year and could have toughened up the law if he wanted to.Philp said: “We know that stop and search, where it’s used, in London alone used to take hundreds of knives every single month off the street.“I’ve spoken to the families of the victims of knife crime, who say they wish my son or daughters’ killer or attacker had been searched on the way to that incident. “We know it takes knives off the streets, we know it acts as a deterrent and yet left-wing politicians are against it, and it makes the streets less safe, it makes train stations less safe as well.”But Foster told him: “In May of 2024, when the Conservatives were in government [and] you were in the Home Office, a press release under James Cleverly described laws on knife crime in England and Wales as already among the toughest in the world.“Now they are the same laws, it’s just that you are not in government any more. So what is different about them that they’re now not good enough?”Bizarrely, Philp said the Tories have now “got new leadership” and he was not home secretary at that time.He added: “We tightened up the laws around mandatory minimum sentences for knife possession, but I would like to see those tightened up even further.”Foster told him: “Why didn’t you do that then? People will think that it sounds opportunistic that you describe those laws as extremely fit for purpose when you were in government and you’re now saying that they’re not because you’re in opposition.”But Philp said: “We need to go further with tougher knife laws, with more stop and search, with the use of technology like live facial recognition to identify wanted criminals and dangerous people so they can be arrested.”Related...Home Secretary Urges Public To 'Avoid Speculation' After Mass Train Stabbing

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