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Home Affairs and Communities

Let me give one or two examples. The first example is posters in every community in the country, which were based on entirely false statistics on violent crime, which were condemned by the Association of Chief Police Officers, and which gave rise to demoralisation in communities throughout the country. The second example is a direct mail letter that went out to households throughout the country, based on totally dishonest arithmetic about local government spending on immigration and asylum. ““Dishonourable”” is the word I use for those things, and indeed they were. Such a situation is not acceptable in a democratic society.