British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken of his worry as a parent for his daughters, which is a key motivation behind his determination to crack down on crime and make the country’s streets safer.

According to a BBC report on Saturday, the father of 11-year-old Krishna and nineyear-old Anoushka told reporters that the issue of safety of women is personally important to him.

The British-Indian leader, who is married to Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy’s daughter Akshata, referred to some incidents of attacks on women and girls in the UK to highlight why the issue was a priority for him.

“I want to make sure that my kids and everyone else can walk around safely; that’s what any parent wants for their children,” said Sunak, as he admitted that “many of us men” take safety “for granted”.

“So making it safer for people is something that’s just personally quite important to me.”