{"id":280027,"date":"2025-07-21T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280027\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:19:14","slug":"bbc-verify-live-fact-checking-farages-crime-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280027\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Fact-checking Farage’s crime speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Farage right about crime going up?published at 13:18 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

13:18 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucy Gilder<\/strong>
BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n

\"NigelImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been setting out his party\u2019s crime and justice plans.<\/p>\n

He opened the conference by criticising successive home secretaries for claiming crime is falling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crime survey for England and Wales is based on completely false data. If you look at police recorded crime… there are some significant rises in crimes of all kinds, particularly crimes against the person,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Crime in England and Wales is measured by a survey asking people about their experiences of crime, as well as police recorded offences. <\/p>\n

Last year the survey recorded 9.6 million incidents, a 14% increase on the year before but against a backdrop of significant falls over the past three decades. This headline figure doesn\u2019t include domestic abuse, sexual assault, stalking, and harassment. <\/p>\n

The category called \u201cviolence against the person\u201d in police recorded data is down slightly in the past year but up over the decade, as is overall recorded crime.<\/p>\n

The survey is viewed as the better measure of long-term crime trends because it includes incidents that haven\u2019t been reported to the police and is unaffected by police reporting or recording changes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s considered a trusted or \u201caccredited\u201d source of official crime data by the statistics regulator so it\u2019s unclear what Farage means about the survey containing \u201ccompletely false data\u201d.<\/p>\n

Police recorded data does not have this status because of concerns about its quality and consistency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Farage right about crime going up?published at 13:18 British Summer Time 13:18 BST Lucy GilderBBC Verify journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-280027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114891428550893681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}