Beneath Abbott's police funding gaffes, Labour's numbers make sense

The shadow home secretary stumbled but reversing cuts to capital gains tax would pay for 10,000 extra officersShadow home secretary Diane Abbott may have misspoken several times during her “car crash” tour of broadcasting studios on Tuesday morning to launch Labour’s campaign pledge to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers, but that doesn’t mean that the underlying figures she quoted don’t add up.The worst of what the Tories seized on as “Diane’s morni