COMMENT

Asked about Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick’s recent comments about social media fuelling knife crime, Ms Abbot said: “I think social media is a symptom not a cause.”

She added: “I think we have to look at the cuts in youth services, the cuts in policing and the fact that many young people leaving school don’t have jobs to go to for the real underlying causes.”

Ms Dick visited Scotland in February to see first hand the work of Police Scotland and

“We have to look at the cuts in youth services, in policing and the fact that many young people leaving school don’t have jobs for the realunderlyingcauses”

DIANE ABBOT