Deprived areas 'more hit by crime'

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The Conservatives released an analysis of the 32,000 council wards in England which, they said, showed that the 20 most deprived were all the top 10% for crime.

The most deprived ward, Speke in Liverpool, had the 68th highest level of crime and disorder, while the second most deprived, Harpurhey in Manchester, was the seventh highest for crime rate and also had the second highest level of child poverty.

The third most deprived, Golf Green in Tendring in Essex, was 1,303th for crime; the fourth, Park in Blackpool, was 2,075th for crime; and the fifth, Vauxhall in Liverpool, was 683rd for crime.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said that the figures undermined Labour's claim to be "the party of progressive politics".

"Over the past ten years we have seen big increases in violence, in knife and gun crime in Britain, and now even burglary is on the increase again," he said.

"The people who are at the sharp end of this are the people who face the biggest challenges in their lives in some of our most deprived communities.

"Billions of pounds, endless initiatives and a decade of rhetoric later, and the reality is that the Government has let those people down comprehensively."