Ed Davey used his question to the Prime Minister today to tackle the Prime Minister on the Government’s attitude to fraud:
He demanded that Boris Johnson correct the record after misleadingly claiming crime has fallen, and apologise to the four million victims of fraud he has written out of the picture.
Seventy-four-year-old Janet had twenty-five thousand pounds stolen by fraudsters.
The money was my mum and dad’s and I just felt I let them down,” she told the BBC.
For Janet and for the 4 million people who fell victim to fraudsters and online scammers last year, fraud is a crime.
Does the Prime Minister understand the hurt he and his Ministers cause fraud victims like Janet, when they write them out of the crime figures, and dismiss fraud as something people don’t experience in their day-to-day lives?
Will the Prime Minister correct the record and apologise?