Crossed wires from the Tories?
Updated on 25 August 2009
Do the streets of Britain really resemble US TV series the wire - or have the Tories lost the plot? More4 News reports.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling has likened some cities in the Britain to inner-city Baltimore as portrayed in cult TV series The Wire.
In a speech in Westminster he said the UK was suffering the same culture of gang and street violence found in the US, and that police were fighting an "urban war".
Home Secretary Alan Johnson accused his Tory shadow of trying to sound "cool" with "glib references" to TV shows.
