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Alan Johnson will pledge today to introduce new measures to save police time on the beat.
Johnson ‘slims down’ stop-and-search forms

By politics.co.uk staff Alan Johnson will pledge today to introduce new measures to save police time on the beat. In a speech later to the Police Superintendents’ Association, the home secretary will announce that police officers will no longer have to fill out lengthy paperwork when they stop and search people. Instead, officers will only… Read more »

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Ben Bradshaw to "challenge" BBC
Bradshaw to ‘challenge’ BBC

By politics.co.uk staff Ben Bradshaw is expected to back the BBC later today following comments by James Murdoch last month. The culture, media and sport secretary will “reiterate his support for the BBC”, a spokesman said, ahead of this evening’s speech to the Royal Television Society’s convention in Cambridge. Mr Murdoch launched a scathing attack… Read more »