Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, announced the policy in a speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester this morning.

Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015

Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015

Andrew Ashong, 44, is a London-based musician. Dr Aditi Jaganathan, 35, is an educator, writer and activist.

Commissioner Mark Rowley says prejudice has ‘put down deep roots’ within force after BBC Panorama investigation

Met chief: Facial recognition isn't for identifying violent racists, silly! It's just for fun things, like carnivals

Mother of murdered teenager Stephen says officers who infiltrated political groups should be named at public inquiry

AI that anticipates where crimes are likely to occur and who might commit them has a troubling track record. Democratic accountability could shine a light on the technology and how it’s used.

Watchdog says there are also allegations of discriminatory and misogynistic comments, centring on Charing Cross police station

Watchdog says there are also allegations of discriminatory and misogynistic comments, centring on Charing Cross police station

Police given backing to rapidly expand the use of mass surveillance tech without the need for a public (or even parliamentary) debate. Nothing to see here, it'll be fine

The proliferation of algorithmic technologies such as live facial recognition risks deepening the very abuses stop and search rules aim to limit

Less than three in five people in Surrey think the local police does "an excellent or good job", a new survey suggests.

Young people say they have concerns about the technology, but that it could make people feel safer.

Police chiefs claim the smell of cannabis makes THEM feel unsafe... even more so than those who have been abused by their officers

Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology ‘unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate’ The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend’s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with “racial bias” and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded. A letter sent to Mark Rowley warns that use of instant face-matching cameras at an event that celebrates the African-Caribbean community “will only exacerbate concerns about abuses of state power and racial discrimination within your force”. Continue reading...

The Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance.