By Collingwood Thompson (July 21, 2017, 10:42 AM EDT) -- When Theresa May called a snap general election in April 2017, few people would have predicted that the future of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office would become an election issue. This was because under the directorship of David Green QC, the SFO was, widely considered to have turned a corner and was beginning to show it had real teeth, especially with regard to corporate wrongdoing with deferred prosecution agreements involving Rolls Royce and Tesco leading to punitive payments in excess of £790 million being approved by the courts. However despite this the Conservative Party manifesto contained the following pledge:...