THE Damian Green arrest affair gets more and more baffling. It now appears a Scotland Yard chief had to ring David Cameron in order to trace the Tory MP on the morning that he had his collar felt. Having decided not to arrest him in a dawn raid, the plods decided they did not know his whereabouts. Did they telephone his home? His office? No. The police called David Camron, taking a “conscious decision” not to inform him that an arrest was imminent. Did he not think to ask why the Yard wanted to contact one of his leading frontbenchers? And just where was Damian anyway, we wonder?
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