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Labour demands apology for police funding

The Home Officer Minister Nick Hurd has said that police chiefs "exaggerated" the scale of cuts required to fund additional payments towards staff pensions.

There were gasps from some MPs when he suggested that exaggeration was "not unusual for the police".

Kristiina Cooper reports.

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