Priti Patel will ‘continue to work’ with Met Chief

When asked whether the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Dame Cressida Dick should resign, the Home Secretary has said she will “continue to work with the Metropolitan Police and the commissioner to hold them to account.”

In an interview with BBC News this afternoon, she did not say whether or not she believed Ms Dick should resign.

She said there are “important questions” about “conduct of that serving officer and of conduct in policing more broadly”.

Earlier today Labour MP and former minister Harriet Harman called for the resignation of the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Dame Cressida Dick from her post following the issuing of a life order sentence to police officer Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.

Yesterday the Old Bailey heard how Couzens pretended to arrest Sarah prior to raping and strangling her when she vanished in March this year.

Dick was widely criticised in March for Metropolitan Police’s approach to a vigil for Sarah Everard, where officers arrested four people, alleging violations of Coronavirus restrictions.