Police were accused of a 'totalitarian' clampdown on free speech after the creator of Father Ted was arrested by armed officers over online comments about transgender activists.
Fury erupted at the Metropolitan Police's treatment of TV writer Graham Linehan, who told how he was dealt with 'like a terrorist', held in a cell and then had to be rushed to hospital because the stress 'nearly killed me'.
He was arrested at Heathrow by five armed officers as he returned to Britain, and accused of 'inciting violence' in relation to three posts he had made on social media network Twitter/X while living in the US - including what he says was a joke about urging women to punch transgender women if they use female-only spaces.
It came on a day when:
UK borrowing costs spiralled to a 27-year high and the pound sank on Tuesday after an influx of 'tax fanatics' into No 10
