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. The key points from Nick Clegg, and Theresa May
. Lunchtime Summary
I provided a summary of the main announcements from Nick Clegg and Theresa May at 11am. Here are key things that have happened since then.
. Keith Vaz said that the internal affairs committee to find out if BlackBerry ready, the police information about the way their instant messaging services used to organize the unrest, was to give. Vaz said, according to Tim Godwin, Acting Commissioner of the Met, told the committee that at some point during the riots, he did ask for permission to turn off Twitter. After politics home, said Vaz had this issue be investigated.
Sir Hugh said that with a 44-force model it was important there was something in the middle to make sure of co-ordination, but added: "In my judgment I'm sure we could do things better."
I've seen it in action, inside Pentonville prison, in a meeting between a frightened widow and the man who broke into her home and was subsequently jailed. He was sorry; she realised that the monster of her imagining was an inadequate and drug-addicted failure. Her long nightmare ended with that encounter.
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The home affairs committee is now over. I was not following it closely, but colleagues were. Here are some of the key points.
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What the communities have told me that we have more responsibility in the UK, and that we are greater opportunities for our young people so that they must have a stake in the company.
A report by the Commission for all three party leaders gives us the opportunity to come together, work together and make the changes we need.
The home affairs committee is taking evidence this morning from Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, and other senior officers about the riots. You can watch the hearing on the parliamentary website now.
It 's been a coalition morning. With Nick Clegg, and Theresa May, both in advertisements, we 've able to taste both toppings on the pizza coalition. Clegg's liberalism today was a bit more fleshy than the May authoritarianism. Here are the key points.
Clegg said they would be met "at the prison gates" by work programme providers and put through a "tough process so that they find work and they stay on the straight and narrow".
May's speech was relatively thin. Apart from the well-trailed announcement about giving the police better riot training, the only news was her declaration that she is going to consider giving the police new curfew powers. But she did explain why she does not want Bill Bratton to run the Met.
Only 12% of officers are visible at any one time, she says. That does not mean that the other 88% are not doing anything. But it does mean that the police can be made more visible.
People say that police budgets will be cut by 20%. But that figure is based on the amount of money that comes from central government. But forces also get money from the police precept. And 80% of their budget goes on salaries, and salaries are cut. Taking into account these factors, police budgets are only being cut by 6% in real terms over four years, she says.
Theresa May , Is the Home Secretary, is now speaking.
She starts by paying tribute to the police. Some of them worked 18-hour days during the crisis. Some returned to work voluntarily when the riots were happening. Some went to protect their communities even though they did not have equipment to protect themselves.
But that does not mean the police will not be reformed, she says.
May says she does not want to give a forensic accounting of what went wrong. (May and Cameron provoked a backlash last week after police criticized in detail during the debate in the House of Commons on Thursday. The half of Friday had to spend backtracking, and lavishing praise on the police.) But she has a point to repeat last week about the initial response as inadequate.
Cameron told local emergency services chiefs gathered at the fire station: "I wanted to hear first-hand about some of the things you experienced, and some of the things we need to learn from it.
When asked about the causes of the riots, says Clegg, that in a situation like this, at an early stage, you always get 'cardboard cutout caricatures ". One side says it 's about morality, the other says to its economic conditions. Both sides are partly right, says Clegg.
Clegg is now to questions.
Q: Cameron is talking again to help married couples. Under the coalition agreement that raising the income tax threshold to 10,000 ? to give priority to tax credits, the marriage?
He says he has visited areas affected by the rioting. Some of the response has been "heroic", he says. Among the optimism, he cites Manchester, where more people were involved in the clean-up operation than in the rioting.
Yesterday David Cameron and Ed Miliband delivered lengthy speeches about the riots and their causes. Today we're going to hear from Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, and Theresa May, the home secretary. I'll be blogging both events live, as well as covering any reaction.
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