Police insisted the raids were not connected to Lord Stevens' ongoing Quest inquiry into the Premier League.

警方坚持称这次突击检查跟史蒂文斯正在进行的对英超联赛的调查没有关系。

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Lord Stevens, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner, was appointed to head the independent review into the future of policing last year.

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That's why we're committed to setting up a national border police, with Lord Stevens leading a task force to produce a plan for making it happen.

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In general their lordships are rather less eurosceptic than MPs, but this will be the first parliamentary opportunity for Ukip to weigh in - and watch out for their new star turn, Lord Stevens of Ludgate.

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