@CliveMyrieBBC - just seen you on BBCNews at 6pm. Are you ok? One of your eyes, left I think looked a little less wide open than normal? Sorry to put this on X but no other way of contacting you.
The Crown Prosecution Service does indeed have to give approval for police to charge suspects in serious crimes.
But where is the evidence that when Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions the CPS wrongly refused such consents in rape and child grooming cases? There is none.
On the contrary Starmer was pro-active in focussing on this type of crime as @nazirafzal has correctly highlighted. There may well have been failures to address this issue elsewhere through reporting and investigation but that is not the role of the CPS.
Baseless innuendo does not contribute to serous debate.
@BlokeOnWheels Perfume adverts - nearly all the female ones! Betting ads, cleaning stuff ads, I mean how many people live in houses like those, clean before you even start using the flash or whatever! Air fragrance ones! Shall I go on??