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Councillors have clashed over calls to declare a public safety emergency and “make Birmingham safe again”.

Conservative councillors recently urged the Labour -run authority to adopt their proposed action plan to ‘make Brum safer’ amid recent stabbings in the city centre .

The plan included setting up a high street safety task force, including business groups, to tackle the issue of violent and sexual crimes.

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But the Labour administration criticised the move by the opposition, saying work is already under way to tackle violence and accusing the Conservatives of “playing politics”.

The Conservative’s motion for debate, which calls for a public safety emergency to be declared

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