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“Profoundly misleading” Tory crime stats – 8 in the morning, February 4th

8amBy Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Chris Grayling’s use of crime statistics has been slammed as “profoundly misleading” by Tory colleague Iain Duncan Smith.

* MPs are braced for a “devastating” final verdict from Sir Thomas Legg, as Legg will order £1 million to be repaid by 350 MPs.

* Boris Johnson’s Tory administration in London is to cut the number of police officers in the capital, despite him campaigning for election on making crime-fighting his top priority.

* David Freud, now an adviser to the Conservatives, has praised the government for saving up to 500,000 jobs during the recession.

* Gordon Brown will give an hour’s interview on his “Life Story” to Piers Morgan, to be broadcast on February 14th.

* David Cameron says a Tory Government would grant no new rights for gays.

* Charles Clarke has called on Gordon Brown to increase taxes in order to deal with the deficit.

* The successful car scrappage scheme will be extended for another month to the end of March.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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