MP for Richmond Park Sarah Olney welcomed the spending review’s investment into social care but said she remains concerned about the lack of money for police in London.
It comes as Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced policing will get more cash to allow Labour to fulfil its manifesto pledge of introducing 13,000 extra police officers in England and Wales. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
It comes as Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced policing will get more cash to allow Labour to fulfil its manifesto pledge of introducing 13,000 extra police officers in England and Wales. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00More than anything, my constituents are going to be concerned about the lack of funding for policing.
00:05We urgently need more police on our streets. We want to see more neighbourhood policing in Richmond and in Kingston.
00:11And we know that the Metropolitan Police as a whole is facing a huge funding shortfall.
00:15And we didn't see enough today to really make up that difference.
00:18And that's going to have a massive impact on policing in London.
00:21And it's something that my constituents see every single day, that we don't have enough police in our local neighbourhoods.
00:28And part of the reason for that is because the Met, as a single police force, often has to abstract offices from places like Richmond and Kingston
00:35and bring them into central London and do some of that policing that they're only required to do because this is the capital city.
00:41And we really do need to see the Met's special status in that regard, properly recognised in its funding settlement.
00:48The commissioner, the mayor, all of the elected politicians have been calling for that for months and months.
00:54And we're really disappointed today.