LABOUR MP

Tulip siddiq has been lamenting how cuts in police numbers have forced her constituents in hampstead, North London, to launch an appeal for £600,000 to pay for five police officers. she was being interviewed by BBC radio on a mobile phone and had to move to a nearby police station precinct to get a better signal. Of course, there was no shortage of officers there. They demanded to look at her phone to check she wasn’t a security snooper. Tulip says: ‘They were just doing their job, but it was ironic, given what I was talking about.’