Posted on 07/19/2026 8:22:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
David Lammy is taking legal action to block publication of foreign nationals' crime rates in England and Wales, provoking claims of a "cover-up".
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Information Commissioner that data revealing the full scale of foreign offending in England and Wales from 2018 to 2024 should be published.
The Centre for Migration Control (CMC), a think tank, asked the MoJ to reveal the total number of convictions broken down by nationality and offences for the seven years under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.
But the MoJ claims the cost of providing the information would be disproportionate and that some of the data could lead to the identification of individuals in breach of their rights to privacy if it was published. Both arguments were rejected by the information watchdog.
On Sunday night, opposition parties claimed that the MoJ's actions amounted to a "cover up".
Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, said: "Labour have consistently refused to publish sex crime data by nationality, even though we know migrants from some countries are much more likely to be convicted of rape and sexual assault.
"Why are they trying to appeal against releasing the data? Do Labour just want to cover up the truth about foreign national offenders?"
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Interesting story who’s behind it considering Lammy has been friendly to JD Vance.
Marco...Israel.
Protecting foreign criminals that are destroying your country so they can bring more criminals , the leftist’s new mission
This is an important statistic that every country should publicize.
YES!
the global left have destroyed the credibility of all data published by government agencies.
Just as they distort truth in speeches and writings, they have distorted crime data, economic data and election data.
Cloward-Piven meets Kalergi-Coudenhove.
Who wouldn’t want this information? Government could not make rational decisions on immigration and law enforcement without information like this. But, maybe that is the point, isn’t it?
Both sound completely Orwellian... Huxleyish, even.
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