I really hope they are able to be effective with a “busting the gangs” strategy
No strategy to bust gangs is going to work while governments, including Starmer’s Labour government, insist on putting £10 billion a year into the hands of criminals through drug prohibition.
It’s true that the media are a problem but that’s not to say immigration doesn’t also cause problems with housing. Last year (2023) there was a net 685,000 more people in the UK. That’s a ridiculous amount of people who need housing. I can say from experience that it’s an utter nightmare finding anywhere at all to live, and was so even before those hundreds of thousands of people turned up.