After Brexit has been concluded this will be a key challenge for the Conservatives as the Party of law and order. Political correctness must not get in the way of effective policing.
And, late in the day, the Prime Minister bows to our advice, and rushes on to Marr, today, to make the case for her new proposals.
The most important lesson we took away from Bill Bratton’s New York office during the 1990s was all about co-ordination.
P.S: Only one Tory Prime Minister in recent years was “taken down” by Tory MPs. Clue: it was neither Major nor Cameron.
Improving the situation means not only holding the police to greater account, but behaving more responsibly ourselves.
We have our reservations about the Foreign Secretary, but concede that he alone, of those Ministers who spoke this week, made the Tory message sing.
Incarcerating more criminals for longer has saved millions of people from becoming victims of crime.
Plus: Unemployment is down. Productivity is up. Wages are up. Despite Brexit. Despite Brexit. Despite Brexit…
The Prime Minister’s interview yesterday was a reminder of the fact.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
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