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‘Warm words won’t stop youth violence,’ Diane Abbott warns

DIANE ABBOTT warned her government counterpart yesterday  that “warm words” won’t stop the wave of youth violence on England’s streets.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid said on Monday that the explosion in knife crime and violent assaults was comparable to “an outbreak of some virulent disease.”

Mr Javid promised that government departments will offer co-ordinated policies to eradicate knife crime and its causes, and said that the government will adopt a “public health approach” to solving the problem.

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