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Politics: Tories lay out issues for policy on youth

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Justine Greening, the Conservative Party's vice-chair (youth), is working on the issues, and will feed them into the party's policy groups and start working with the shadow cabinet's teams over the next six months.

Greening said: "Young people's issues cut across services. I don't think we have got a grip on the problem of youth crime."

Greening said she would like the Home Office to interview under-16s for its British Crime Survey to get a full picture of young people as victims of crime. She said research in part of her Putney constituency showed that 37 per cent of muggings were perpetuated on young people aged 16 and under.

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