Henry Nowak: Shabana Mahmood considers banning Sikh daggers after 18-year-old’s murder

In the same programme, Henry’s father, Mark Nowak, said he did not accept the issue was “difficult to legislate”.

“Because the current ambiguity is probably being dealt with on the streets of Britain right now with police officers not knowing when to act and when not to act,” he added.

Kemi Badenoch, meanwhile, said ministers “do need to look at” knife laws, adding: “There is no freedom to murder in any religion and I think that we need to bring some common sense into this.”

The Conservative Party leader said: “This is something that we do need to look at because we want to make sure that religious minorities are integrated into our culture and that people don’t use loopholes which exist for religious minorities to commit crimes.