
Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.
Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.
Plus: Where have Allegra Stratton’s live press conferences got to? And why I hate Twitter.
If Ministers don’t trust the police to use the extra officers, why did they decide to recruit them in the first place?
There is no doubt that innovation is needed to tackle a problem which is a blight on communities across the UK.
The real one is widely and correctly dismissed as weak. So we’ve had a go at assembling a stronger team. Here is the result.
The Prime Minister has also chosen not to tinker with the whips, in contrast to the habit of both his predecessors.
Plus: A sofa, two dogs, no cup of tea – and my Brexit evening. And: the pre-eminence of Policy Exchange.
Yesterday’s announcement of Government’s design guidance is a very welcome step in the right direction.
“It will be the biggest expansion of policing – probably – ever,” according the Policing Minister.
We’ll continue to update this as the Prime Minister fills out the lower ranks of his government.
The key to promotion in this shuffle wasn’t primarily having backed Leave – it was supporting Johnson.
Its members must be signed up to leaving on October 31. Here’s a rough draft of what the top team might look like.
The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.
Our survey identified 15,875 of them. Many of these could be redeveloped to provide new homes.
He leaves the field as the 1922 Committee agrees and announces rules for the conduct of the election.
We see no reason why the bottom three, say, shouldn’t fall out each time – rather than just the one, as previously.