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Crime as an issue during the 2005 UK general election
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posted on 19.12.2008, 15:01 authored by Andrew MilliePoliticians are fond of telling interviewers that their focus should be on the ‘real issues’
or ‘what matters most to the people’. This research note considers the place of crime
as a ‘real issue’, specifically during the national general election held in the UK in May
2005. According to research by Ipsos MORI (May 2005), at the time of the election the
issues that mattered most to people were crime (40 per cent), the health service (36 per
cent), race relations/immigration (27 per cent) and education (26 per cent). Crime was
clearly important to the public, but how was this reflected in the policies of the main
parties and the media coverage of the campaign?
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