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

Wes Streeting has said former governments layered ‘more and more expectation on the police’. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Keir Starmer wants the police to “focus on policing streets and not tweets”, Wes Streeting has said, after the co-creator 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 was told he was under arrest over the posts.