Ministers will not scrap 'reasonable grounds' stop and search rule

Police have been in talks with the home secretary’s advisers about loosening the rules amid worries about an increase in knife attacks.The government has ruled out changing stop and search rules to allow police to use the power without reasonable grounds to suspect wrongdoing, while saying they want to “reduce bureaucracy” over such operations.The statement from the junior Home Office minister Nick Hurd follows the revelation in the Guardian that police have been in talks with