i really hoped would get through the rest of the speech without doing that, old habits die hard. we want to listen and ensure you know you will have an year at the heart of government. it does not mean that we will always agree and can always respond to the precise requests you have of us, but i want to know what you and your officers and your communities feel. for me, that is absolutely key. there is no such thing, i hate the phrase a minor crime. if you are on the receiving end of crime none of it feels minor. we see the terrible situation of the retail crime at the moment and i think chris spoke about that. anti social behaviour, for the people who feel that, it hurts and quite understandably they want us to do something about it so there is no such thing as a minor crime. everybody deserves the right to feel safe in their daily lives. but the sad truth of the matter is we do have very serious criminal here that you also have to deal with and much of that, as challenging a
the two are not inextricably linked. and that is why you will know, for those of you who have worked with me before, my instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private. and if if your officers if your staff respond to that style of working, i genuinely believe we can maximize the work that we do on behalf of the british people. and ultimately, that is my aim. that is my aim. our correspondent mark lobel has been summing up the home secretary s speech. after weeks of debate about protests and policing we were really looking to see if the new home secretary would be drawing a line between himself and suella braverman, sacked, of course, on monday. we got that really in this line, didn t we, to praise in public and to criticise in private. that was no doubt a reference to the fact that many people had looked at suella braverman over the past few weeks as more of a pundit, as some analysts had described her, rather than a politician by putting her thoughts into co