HOME Secretary Theresa May has announced that she is cutting the money given to asylum seekers, and I repeat given because they have never contributed.

This is long overdue, in my opinion.

If it had been done earlier we may not have the scenes we are experiencing in Calais, but the fear we now have is the increase in crime that it will create.

This will bring home the shortage of police on the ground that I have made reference to many times.

Some 17,000 police have gone since this government took over in 2010. Theresa May’s policies have savaged our police force.

D Dunbar, Sherburn Village.