Emily Maitlis

Yeah, well, one thing that he will be talking about today and he will be concentrating on is just to complicate the story even further.

is a move overnight by police chiefs who have said they're reviewing this is their words anti-racism guidance that suggests officers should treat ethnic minorities differently in order to ensure equality of outcomes.

Now, the Times bizarrely has sort of seized again half of this and said, oh, you see, that's a case of two-tier policing.

It's an admission of two-tier policing, something that the Prime Minister said in PMQ today he does not believe happens.

I think what the police chiefs are trying to explain is that they have

Try to give guidance for officers who are attending a scene where there may be sensitivities involved, whether it is different religions, different races, whether it is people with disabilities, whether it's people with different mental conditions.

The police have to arrive at the scene and know that there will be sensitivities.

Now, if you're Farage, you say, oh, you see, that's basically two-tier policing.

If you're the police chiefs, you say, give us a break.

You know how complicated this job is.

You know how bloody difficult it is to arrive in an emergency on a 999 call in the dark and try and make sense of what happens.

And we should just, to go back a step, remember that when the police got that call from the brother of Henry Novak's attacker, murderer,

They were told that there had been a racially aggravated crime.

In other words, they had been explicitly told that they were arriving at the scene where they had been a racially aggravated attack.

It was dark.

I mean, the big question in my head is, for Christ's sake, bring a torch.

You know, there should never have been that moment where they didn't understand that a poor boy was bleeding on the ground.

There should never have been that moment.

But you can understand the mindset of police who have just received a call.

They think they're arriving at one thing and they don't understand what's going on.