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There is no doubt that innovation is needed to tackle a problem which is a blight on communities across the UK.
The Prime Minister has also chosen not to tinker with the whips, in contrast to the habit of both his predecessors.
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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 vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.
He leaves the field as the 1922 Committee agrees and announces rules for the conduct of the election.
If Ministers don’t trust the police to use the extra officers, why did they decide to recruit them in the first place?