Daniel Hannan

The real lesson of this fiasco is that we need elected police chiefs

The Commons row on Monday over the Damian Green arrest was a distraction from the most pressing issue, say Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell. We already have a politicised police: so let the voters decide

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