Maggie Chapman: “With a new prime minister about to take office, he should scrap this divisive guidance.”

Masked men shouting abuse, intimidating communities and giving Nazi salutes should never become normal. Yet that is what we have seen on the streets of our cities.

Prisons do not work.

Labour and the incoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, must come clean now. Millions of people cannot plan their futures around official guidance that the government apparently intends to abandon.

Fake police officers patrolling our streets at night, intimidating people going about their daily lives, won’t make our streets any safer.