Wes Streeting has suggested Labour should change the law to stop police arresting people for tweets they’ve sent. Five armed officers hauled Graham Linehan in…
Farage is raising the case and others in front of the House Judiciary Committee in D.C. today. Starmer stopped short of full criticism of the police’s actions yesterday. Streeting told the Today Programme that the police are enforcing badly written legislation:
“We want the police to focus on policing streets rather than tweets… if over the years with good intentions parliament has layered more and more expectation on the police and diluted the focus and priorities of the public, that is obviously something that we need to look at.”
A gauntlet thrown for Yvette Cooper. If the government was serious about its newfound commitment to free speech it would also dismantle the vast architecture it employs to monitor and report on the online activity of the public. Chance would be a fine thing…