Kelly Any regrets, Mr Osborne?

however, does not support this.”

Sadly for Rudd, the evidence that cuts to the police service have contributed to the problem came from a leaked report written by the Home Office, the very department she is supposed to head.

‘I haven’t read it,’ she said. I suggest she should.

While she and the Government are rightly called to account, it still never ceases to amaze me how Teflon-like Osborne has become.

It is ironic that among Osborne’s many jobs these days is editor of the London-based Evening Standard in whose back yard the crime wave is occurring.

At some point it will seriously have to consider the effect his austerity policy has had on the city they write for.

What will Osborne then do? Will he allow his paper to give him a good telling off, or print think pieces about how we should put our political differences aside and look at ways to address the problem? The latter seemed to be the order of the day, while he is more vocal on his Twitter page about Syria.

Meanwhile it is left to the hapless Rudd and the Theresa May ‘mal-administration’ to somehow convince us that black is white. Why less police doesn’t mean more crime. Why less spending on services makes them better.

Why slashing benefits helps benefits claimants. Why Universal Credit works etc, etc. What the Tory government is good at is talking. Talk, as they say, is cheap – which is just how they like it. Home Secretary Amber Rudd