Jonathan Ash-Edwards

Crime should never be normal in Britain. Our Take Back Our Streets campaign will restore order, catch criminals, and back the police to do their job.

It’s time to Take Back Our Streets. @CPhilpOfficial sets out our plan to hire 10,000 additional police officers and use them to patrol the highest crime areas, funded by our £47bn savings package. 👇

Britain’s High Streets are plagued by shoplifting, phone snatching, open cannabis use, e-scooters and crime Enough is enough It’s time to Take Back Our Streets. Here’s our plan 👇

A prolific Hertfordshire fare dodger has walked free and told he can repay just £20 per month. Another soft sentence that makes a mockery of law abiding citizens. The Government must change the law so that unduly lenient sentences in Magistrate’s Courts can be challenged.

Fewer than 3 out of 10 support Labour’s plan to merge police forces. 77% fear police will 'lose local knowledge and community connections'. The public are right. The Government must change course on these unpopular plans for regional police forces. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

This is what effective Parliamentary opposition looks like. The British people deserve to know the truth about Mandelson. It will inevitably end in the Prime Minister’s resignation due to his catastrophic errors of judgement. Well done @KemiBadenoch

There are better answers than limiting jury trials. ⚖️ Sit at full capacity 👩‍⚖️ Recruit and retain the judiciary 🧑‍💼Curb the attrition of the criminal bar 🚐 Get prison transport working 🛠️ Repair court buildings 💻 Make better use of tech

The Home Secretary is now just lying. There wasn’t a £200 limit under which the police didn’t take action. When I checked this in 2024 after being elected as Police & Crime Commissioner I found this common claim wasn’t true. In fact on the day I asked, all of the last 10 cases that Herts Police had sent for prosecution were under £200 and some were under £50. All the Government has changed is to give offenders of shoplifting under £200 the choice of Crown Court or Magistrates Court. All that will do is increase the Crown Court backlog. Read more from when I checked this in 2024 👇 herts-pcc.gov.uk/news/latest-ne…

Police mergers will be a distraction from the fight against crime  I asked Hertfordshire residents what they think, and only 11% believe mergers would make policing better. People want more officers on their streets who know their neighbourhoods, not distant mega‑forces covering huge regions.  Bigger isn’t better. Larger forces mean slower responses, weaker local accountability and resources pulled away from neighbourhood policing👮‍♂️ This is the wrong priority. Instead of wasting time and money on reorganisation, we should be backing the police, investing properly, and going after criminals relentlessly.  That’s the reform people actually want 🚓

This is insane. It will turn out to be a tax on frontline officers to pay for groupthink training packages and compliance bureaucracy. It will do nothing to fix the real issues in policing or the justice system and won’t result in a single extra criminal being caught.

Keir Starmer's plan to slash the number of local police forces is a cover-up of Labour’s failure to get a grip of crime. There is no evidence that ripping up local police forces will cut crime or improve performance. All it will do is weaken policing in our towns and villages.

🗣️ Badenoch: 'The people who come into politics for their own ambitions so they can be on TV or go on I’m A Celebrity or whatever, those are the people who have damaged politics.' Follow the reaction to Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

The Justice Secretary lauds a man who said all police officers should be killed. What is wrong with these people?

It’s not 11-year-old boys who are committing violence against women and girls. We need to get people who have come from cultures that don’t respect women out of our country! Not all cultures are equally valid. Labour’s plan to lecture schoolboys to respect women and girls is a complete distraction. This is what a government looks like when they’re completely out of ideas. Deport all foreign criminals. Put more police on our streets. Conservatives have a funded plan to recruit 10,000 extra officers. Pretending a few extra lessons in school will fix this is complete nonsense. Labour need to stop watching Adolesence and get real. But they can’t, because they’re too scared, weak and divided. They have no serious plan to tackle this problem. Only the @Conservatives do and that’s why we’ll build a stronger Britain.

The terrorist attack against the Jewish community celebrating Chanukah on Bondi Beach is a horrific and anti-semetic atrocity. Chanukah is a reminder that Jewish light has always been forced to burn against the dark. I stand with the Jewish community in Hertfordshire as you mark Chanukah.

It has taken the Government 18 months to produce a VAWG Strategy. The headline announcement is that police forces should have dedicated units to investigate sexual offences. They already exist. How has this worryingly unambitious policy taken 18 months? theguardian.com/society/2025/d…

It’s not ‘unexpected’ if you talk to a small business being hammered by Labour’s tax rises