Well, well, well. The arrest of Graham Linehan this week sparked outrage after the Father Ted co-creator was taken into custody by police after landing in Heathrow on Monday. The comedian was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to his Twitter posts about transgender people before being bailed pending further investigation. Shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick slammed the move as ‘ridiculous’ – and now this morning Health Secretary Wes Streeting has weighed in.

During his morning round on the airwaves, Streeting was adamant that the police forces should be ‘policing streets, not just policing tweets’. He told Times Radio:

I think the prime minister and the home secretary have been very clear that with the law and order challenges we’ve got in our country we want to se

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