Emily Maitlis

And they've heard this very clear sort of excuse, right, from a man who I think is now being investigated by police over what actually happened.

And so the idea that police chiefs are saying, well, we're going to review this because we don't want to give anyone, anyone justification for

for saying that we have a two-tier policing system, is still going to lead some people to say, aha, you see, it was happening all along.

Look, nobody's denying something went absolutely, tragically, horrifically wrong.

Yeah.

I mean, if you were a police in Southampton, you saw 300 people outside your police station.

What you'd actually be thinking is, how quickly can I leave this job?

Right.

And they wouldn't be the only people thinking that.

Police numbers have dropped drastically because no one, frankly, wants to go into policing in this climate, in this country, in this age.

Just to go back to the Commons for a moment, there was a curious moment of, I think what I'm going to call possible stage management.

A Labour MP...

raised the question of Henry Novak after a Prime Minister's questions that, frankly, fairly, to Kemi Badenoch, had been dominated by a discussion of welfare reform.

And I think it actually made her point that if you don't want to politicise something, then you choose something else to attack the Prime Minister on.

She did.

She went for welfare reform.

But much later in that sort of half hour came a question from a Labour MP about the murder of Henry Novak.

And the Prime Minister gave a very considered, very

thoughtful response to that about the importance of not politicising this tragedy.

And as he finished speaking, the next person to get to his feet was Nigel Farage.