Use taxation pounds to boost our coppers

JUST when you think that Starmer's government could not get any worse, it has.

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Freedom of Information requests I submitted into how much extra police forces will have to pay as a result of Reeves' budget and how many police that could take off our streets - should give us all sleepless nights.

It seems "Rachel from Accounts" didn't foresee the (totally predictable) effect increasing employers' NI contributions would have. The result of which is police forces spending more on higher tax bills rather than bobbies on the beat.

Here are some of the breathtaking tax increases for different forces:

• West Yorkshire - £11.17m

• Greater Manchester - £11.9m

• Merseyside - £7m budgeted posts

• Devon & Cornwall - £6.313m

• My county of Cheshire - £3.7m