Suella Braverman must force every chief constable to act on police watchdog’s ­withering report on failing, woke cops

Reform cops

EVERY word of the police watchdog’s ­withering attack on our failing, woke cops is music to our ears.

But it is depressing the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, ex-Merseyside boss Andy Cook, had to spell it out for them.

For years forces nationwide, discombobulated by social media, have ignored the hard graft of preventing and detecting crime to prioritise virtue-signalling stunts and politically contentious causes they personally support.

Burglary has effectively become legal while offending against wokeness and trans rights on Twitter is punished.

No wonder public trust is at rock-bottom.

“Police aren’t there to champion social change or take sides. They must uphold the law as it is written,” says Mr Cook.

It won’t be fixed with “glossy strategies and mission statements”, he says, but “through action”. Dead right.

And the Home Secretary will certainly agree.

She must force every chief constable to listen and act — and fire them if they don’t.

Brexit bilge

THE Remainer establishment will waste no chance to trash Brexit.

Incredibly, even the Covid inquiry is limbering up to do so.

It intends to ask witnesses how ­preparing to leave the EU damaged our readiness for a pandemic.

Really? The scandalous incompetence and smug complacency of Public Health England was Brexit’s fault?

The years it wasted obsessing about our diets and baying for nanny state taxes were Brexit’s fault?

PHE itself didn’t think Brexit was a problem when in February 2020 it assured the nation it was ready for anything (Spoiler: It wasn’t).

What Brexit DID do was let us roll out the jabs first.

We were still officially under EU rules — but went our own way because we knew we were leaving.

Will the inquiry credit Brexit with saving countless lives?

We won’t hold our breath.

Just stop him

IT is time Keir Starmer denounced his major donor Dale Vince, and the criminal cult he also funds, and handed back every penny the tycoon has given Labour.

The party is a contender for power. It cannot continue to be bankrolled and advised by a man who pays for, and now joins, Just Stop Oil’s illegal roadblocks.

It is absurd too for Vince to defend Starmer as being “his own man”.

Starmer didn’t think up his deranged plan to ban vital new supplies of North Sea oil and gas. It is the sole demand of Just Stop Oil.

He is being steered by zealots like Ed Miliband and Vince, who bunged the party £1.4million presumably hoping his economically illiterate ideology would become policy.

Hey presto, it did.

Labour have become the puppets of fanatics waging war on the public.