A shadow Conservative Home Office minister has claimed there are “no-go zones” in Luton where “white people won’t go”. Blake Stephenson, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire who was appointed to the Tory frontbench role two weeks ago, claimed the town was “a very dangerous place” where some communities “live in ghettoes”. His comments, made at a fringe meeting at the Conservative party conference, mirror claims by far-right activists including from the terrorist mass murderer Anders Breivik, who have also said the town has “no-go zones”.
These claims have been denied by the local police force as well as local Muslim and Christian groups. Appearing at a Centre for Policy Studies meeting in Birmingham, Stephenson claimed to know Luton well because he lives in the neighbouring constituency. There are parts of that town – and unfortunately the police will tell you this – it can be a very dangerous place.
There are parts where white people won’t go. They are like no-go zones. It is not alone, there are other towns across the country in a similar situation.
It is dreadful where we have got to. The country is for all of us not just certain communities,” he said. We’ve got the borders plan.
You know, some of that may feel a bit icky for some people, but we’ve got to face into it, lean into it,” he said. In a statement delivered to court in Oslo in 2012, Breivik asked his audience to look at Luton “and the more than 1,000 Islamic no-go zones where police do not dare pass through”. The city was, he said, living in “warlike conditions”.
Bedfordshire police said in a statement at the time that “no-go areas do not exist in Bedfordshire”. Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, co-founded the far-right English Defence League in Luton in 2009, and claimed there were “no-go zones” for white people in the town. Stephenson, who was elected as an MP in 2024, read industrial relations with politics at the University of Kent, before studying law at the University of Law in Guildford.
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