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Barking and Dagenham residents: ‘We feel forgotten’

Violent crime is an issue here. Across London, knife crime rose by about 20% in the year to December, and Dagenham has seen recent stabbings and even a shooting.

It is an issue the Conservative candidate Sam Holland has been vocal about.

An investment manager who grew up in the area, he is now living in neighbouring Thurrock and says that knife crime is a worry to the people he has spoken to.

On housing, he said the area needed more homes but he warned against “overdevelopment”.

He said: “You need quality housing. Not just high-rise flats. Too much building adds to pressures on local services.”

The other candidates standing for election in Dagenham and Rainham on 4 July are Kim Arrowsmith for the Green Party, Liberal Democrat Francesca Flack, Kevin Godfrey for Reform UK and Independent candidate Terence London.


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