The Tories have given up on crime. Not just their policies but their philosophy has failed. For crime is quintessentially a problem the individual cannot tackle alone. Crime demands that communities work as communities to fight it. Labour’s commitment is to match popular concern with a constructive and broad-based programme of action.
Stop any random group of people and ask them what are the key issues, not so much for country, but for them as individuals, and the chances are that crime will be at the top, or almost at the top. Fifteen million offences were committed last year. Most householders or car owners have been victims at some time in their lives. In 1993, there are expected to be close to one million assaults, muggings, rapes and murders.
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