We don't need new crime laws... just start enforcing the current ones, blasts Nigel Farage

It was a shocking day last summer when we got the news from Nottingham that a man was on the loose, three people had been stabbed to death and a car was then driven at people waiting at a bus stop.

What on earth could have happened? Well, today the man that committed these heinous crimes, Valdo Calocan, was in court and it proved to be very controversial because he has not been sentenced for murder but for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

I'll come to the details of that case in a moment. But of course, the day has been used by Sir Keir Starmer and by the Home Secretary, James Cleverly. All promising new laws, more laws, bans on the sale of zombie knives, online ideas that if Labour get to power those caught possessing a weapon without a good reason for having it will be subject to tags and much else. But I just wonder, do we really need more legislation?

Do we need promises coming from both sides of the political divide that something will be done? Might it not be better to enforce the laws that we've actually currently got?

Might not be better to go back to stop and search in the streets and in the areas where knife crime is prevalent? Wouldn't that make more sense than yet more promises of bands and tougher sentences?

Frankly, whether it's a zombie knife or a knife you get from your kitchen drawer, it is not about the weapon, it's about the person that is using it. That's how I feel.