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I am certain I said then that these new powers would make a huge difference in reducing knife crime, and every Labour and Conservative Government since then have said the same thing as we constantly try to close this stable door, since the bad guys can move faster than we can. We had never heard of zombie knives 20 years ago and, apart from the horrendous murder of PC Blakelock at Broadwater Farm in 1985, machete attacks were rare, not ubiquitous as they are now.