YVETTE Cooper branded David Cameron "weak on crime and weak on the causes of crime" as she condemned the Prime Minister for failing to fire his Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell for his outburst at the police in Downing Street.
After her leader Ed Miliband invoked one Tory Prime Minister – Benjamin Disraeli, and his One Nation politics – the Shadow Home Secretary invoked that of another, Robert Peel, for his approach to community policing – "the public is the police, the police is the public".
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