

"The government is effectively decriminalising car theft by letting these gangs get away with it. "Criminal gangs are being allowed to act with impunity while victims are denied justice. Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said: "There is a car theft epidemic across the country, which Conservative ministers are totally failing to tackle. The Met figure for unsolved car thefts was 87.2%. The Lib Dems also said that police had failed to attend three in four car thefts last year.Īccording to its analysis, the Metropolitan Police, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and Essex forces all reported more than 80% of car thefts as unsolved. The party said that an analysis of the latest Home Office figures shows that 100,258 car theft cases across England and Wales were closed in 2022 without a suspect being identified.

The Liberal Democrats are accusing the government of presiding over a "car theft epidemic" as the party claimed that around four in five car thefts went unsolved last year. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the latest from the heart of Westminster - including PMQs at midday.

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