Is it something to do with Theresa May’s departure as Home Secretary, or are the police completely losing it? The first extraordinary circumstance today is that police have advised Angela Eagle, until yesterday, a Labour leadership candidate, that she should no longer hold constituency surgeries – you know, that regular point of contact between MPs and the people they were elected by and for whom they work. Presumably this is because someone lobbed a brick through the window of her constituency office, possibly inflamed by her standing against the leader or maybe just revolted by her pink fuchsia jackets.
Now, Miss Eagle is irritating in any number of ways, but this strikes me as an outrage. If Wallasey, her base, were properly policed, the onus would be on the brick throwers to stop, because the police would be on their case.
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