May Criticised For Police Spending Claims

Theresa May has been criticised by the official statistics watchdog for wrongly claiming the Government was providing an extra £450 million for policing.Sir David Norgrove, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, said the Prime Minister’s comments in the Commons could have led the public to conclude “incorrectly” that central government was providing the additional funding for police spending in 2018/19.In a letter to Labour shadow policing minister Louise Haigh, who