Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly responds to a Government statement on the violent disorder that occurred earlier this summer.
James was appointed Shadow Home Secretary following the General Election in July 2024.
James had served as Home Secretary since November 2023. Prior to that, he had served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since September 2022, having previously served as Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Minister for Middle East and North Africa and as joint Minister of State in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
Speaking in Home Office questions, Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly welcomes the Government's commitment to halving violence against women and girls and asks specifically about the metric to be used to measure the halving of violence against women and girls.