Teflon Theresa and outraged Yvette battle over immigration and police cuts

For the longest serving Home Secretary in 50 years, Theresa May’s record in government is not without its blemishes. On this afternoon’s Daily Politics home affairs debate she made a clear recognition of the government’s failure to meet the Conservative manifesto promise to reduce immigration to the ‘tens of thousands’. May said:

‘We’ve accepted that we have failed to meet that particular target… [But] if you say to me, Andrew, that there’s nothing we have done on immigration, then you’re wrong. What we have done is not met that particular target.

‘Net migration from outside the EU is lower than it was in 2010, but one of the reasons is that we have seen a significant increase in EU migration. We’re one party that will be in government that has actually set out what we’ll do, a credible plan that involves changing welfare benefits, negotiating a new package with the EU, putting free movement into that.’