Nigel Farage said the Manchester airport case would not have happened had he and Richard Tice not threatened to bring a private prosecution. On LBC this morning he went on to attack Labour for its handling of justice:
“This is where Two-Tier comes from. This incident happens at Manchester Airport, and months go by. Southport happens and a woman with a previously wonderful record within days is in court and gets 31 months in prison… There are two police officers who were involved in that incident who are still under investigation by the IOPC… it does appear over all of this that the Home Secretary did take sides… if you put this together with what happened at Southport and the reactions to both you can really understand how ‘Two-Tier Keir’ has really taken off.”
Days after the incident in July last year Yvette Cooper put out a statement which said:
“It is essential the police have the trust of the communities and the public rightly expect high standards from those in charge of keeping us safe.”
One man was convicted yesterday of punching a police constable in the face and assaulting her female colleague, as well as headbutting a passenger. The jury were not able to reach a verdict on a charge relating to him and his brother. The CPS has now said it will seek a retrial…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”