内容摘要：The chart spans 2010 to 2030, so takes in the coalition years, where you can see the total sliding down, then the Conservative years when spending starts rising after the Brexit referendum, then leaps up during Covid.

The chart spans 2010 to 2030, so takes in the coalition years, where you can see the total sliding down, then the Conservative years when spending starts rising after the Brexit referendum, then leaps up during Covid.

"What I really feel very sorry about is the fact that my husband was a great public servant," she said, adding that he had been the youngest home secretary since Winston Churchill."When he died, his obituaries referred to all of this," she said.

, the force apologised for its handling of the case and later paid compensation to Lord Brittan's family.In March 2020, then-Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said: "Operation Midland had a terrible impact on those who were falsely accused by Carl Beech."The previous commissioner and I have apologised to them and I repeat that apology again today."

Lady Brittan said she still doesn't feel there has been a resolution to the false claims, to the police investigation or the impact of the media attention."This misconduct hearing was started a year or two back, and you would have thought that the IOPC would have bothered to perhaps make sure, as this was a high-profile case for them, that everything was in order for the hearing that was to have been heard on the 16 June," she said.

She said she wants there to be action taken to prevent what happened to her husband happening to other people.

"My husband was a high-profile individual, but at every level of society there are people who are falsely accused, and for them [also] it's the ruining of reputation, it's the anxiety that goes with it," she said.James Young, 81, was travelling home from a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes with his wife when he fell about 5ft while being transported on an airport ambulift.

Mr Young was said to have landed "on his hands and knees" and was rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment following the fall on 28 November 2023.Edinburgh Airport said it accepted the decision of the court and offered "sincere condolences" to Mr Young's family.

He suffered a punctured lung, spine fractures and a fractured pelvis as well as a flail chest, where multiple broken ribs cause the chest wall to become unstable and interfere with breathing.Mr Young, from Edinburgh, suffered a heart attack two days later and clinicians concluded "the totality of his injuries and medical condition were not survivable".