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The lure was quick cash, but beneath their bravado was something more predatory - boys as young as their early teens had been effectively groomed into crime.

Still, its predatory policies seemed far away from the serenity of our shared afternoon.

He said the "defining political choice of our times" was between those who want a "patriotic national renewal" and the "politics of predatory grievance".

During a speech announcing a new digital ID scheme, the prime minister said the "defining political choice of our times" would be between the centre-left and the "politics of predatory grievance".

"This is the defining political choice of our times: a politics of predatory grievance, preying on the problems of working people… against the politics of patriotic renewal," Sir Keir Starmer will claim.