Police must focus on ‘streets not tweets’, says Wes Streeting after Graham Linehan arrest

Health secretary subtly blamed Tory governments after Father Ted writer arrested over social media posts

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Keir Starmer wants the police to “focus on policing streets and not tweets”, Wes Streeting has said, after the writer of TV’s Father Ted was arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts on transgender issues.

Graham Linehan, who also created the IT Crowd, said he was intercepted by five armed officers after flying in from Arizona, and told he was under arrest over the posts.