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What Farage isn’t telling you about crime...with The Bunker podcast

Our Westminster Editor, Zoe Grunewald, joined The Bunker to unpack Nigel Farage’s misleading crime claims and explore the real issues Reform UK ignores

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Zoe Grunewald
Aug 13, 2025
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Last week, I joined The Bunker podcast to discuss my recent piece on why Nigel Farage’s claims about crime don’t match the facts.

We talked about why the populist right likes to frame London as a crime hotspot —despite it having lower crime per capita than Birmingham or Manchester — and how Reform UK’s cherry-picking and wilful misinterpretation of data …

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