The Independent emphasizes on-the-ground reporting across issues like reproductive rights, climate change and Big Tech and relies on reader support to fund accessible journalism. A senior cabinet minister criticised police after comedian Graham Linehan was arrested over tweets about transgender people. Health secretary Wes Streeting said the government wants people kept safe by policing streets, not just policing tweets, and suggested legislation could be reviewed if the balance on free speech is wrong. He noted police enforce laws passed by Parliament and indicated it is wrong to blame officers for carrying out those duties.
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Health secretary Wes Streeting said that the government wants to see people being kept safe by policing streets, not just policing tweets and suggested legislation could be looked at if the law was not getting the balance right on free speech. He said: It's very easy for people to criticise the police. The police enforce the laws of the land that we as legislators provide, he told Times Radio.
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