Prospective Tory London Mayoral candidate James Cleverly said on The Guido Fawkes Show last night that he would not abolish the Met Police force if he becomes Mayor, and he has confidence in Mark Rowley as its Chief. Laying the blame for rising crime at the door of Sadiq Khan…
“The Metropolitan Police Force is a really, really good police force. It’s a great police force. Again, like London itself, it is great. It could and should be better. I know Mark Rowley very very well, both from my time originally on the old Metropolitan Police Authority back much earlier in our respective careers, and I also know him very well from my time as Home Secretary. He is a good police officer”.
He further added that while Rowley is a good officer, the force needs political leadership that “has got their back when they do their job properly“:
“The job of the mayor is to make sure that Metropolitan Police is doing its job properly. And on that metric, Sadiq Khan has failed miserably, miserably because he just doesn’t care…”
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Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”