Harold Hill stabbing: MP Julia Lopez warns public losing faith over government's ability to control the streets

People are losing faith in the Government's ability to control the streets, a Conservative MP has told minsters.

Julia Lopez's warning came as she paid tribute to 17-year-old Jodie Chesney, a Hornchurch and Upminster constituent who was fatally stabbed in a park last Friday.

Lopez added people want to see and feel a change in the response to concerns over knife crime as she pressed Home Secretary Sajid Javid to act.

Labour's Stella Creasy also read out the names of those young people who have been killed by a knife in London in 2019.

Conservative former minister Andrew Selous also said:

He suggested more needs to be done to tell young people that "real men don't carry knives".

Speaking in the Commons after Labour secured an urgent question on knife crime, Tory Julia Lopez said: