Policing

Debate between James Morris and Andy Burnham

Wednesday 4th November 2015 Commons Chamber

[James Morris]

My view is that the police and crime commissioner is making some short-term decisions on the basis—[Interruption.]

[Andy Burnham]

rose—

[James Morris]

I will not give way, because I have done so twice already, and I have not even finished responding to the last intervention.

The West Midlands police and crime commissioner is making some short-term decisions in order to generate lurid, populist headlines about Government cuts, rather than taking the right decisions for the people of the west midlands and the broader black country.