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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    The time has come to purge the rot from Scotland Yard

    The Metropolitan Police is overwhelmed, badly run and beset by scandal, and only radical reform will win back public trust

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Inside Politics
    Who is to blame for Metropolitan Police failings?

    Kit Malthouse attacks mayor of London for being ‘asleep at the wheel’ but City Hall points to squeezed funding

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    London’s Metropolitan police put under special measures

    Scandals involving the capital’s force have had ‘chilling effect’ on public confidence, says watchdog

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Police defend integrity of probe into Downing Street lockdown breaches

    Acting Metropolitan Police commissioner says force investigated ‘without fear or favour’

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson ‘unlikely’ to be forced out by partygate report

    Whitehall insiders say civil servant Sue Gray’s inquiry is not expected to end PM’s career

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Police issue 50 more fines over Westminster ‘partygate’ breaches

    Number of referrals for fixed-penalty notices handed out by London’s Met reaches 100

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Tories under pressure to expel MP for watching porn in Commons

    Calls for wider debate on culture of misogyny and sexism within party and parliament

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    London’s Met Police must address ‘wider issue’ of culture, acting head says

    Problems go beyond ‘a few bad apples’, Stephen House tells MPs as he calls for power to rapidly sack officers

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson apologises for lockdown breach but denies misleading MPs

    Prime minister accused by senior Tory of asking party to ‘defend the indefensible’ over partygate

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Boris Johnson to brush aside ‘partygate’ fine when he faces parliament

    Opposition MPs push for contempt inquiry while PM’s allies criticise police’s handling of affair

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Boris Johnson loses justice minister over ‘partygate’ scandal

    Lord David Wolfson quits, pointing to ‘repeated rule-breaking’ in Downing St

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson and Sunak fined over Covid lockdown breaches

    UK prime minister and chancellor pay and apologise after police issue more than 50 penalty notices over partygate

  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    News in-depthUK police
    Scandal-hit Met signals wider problem in British policing

    Former officer ‘lifts the stone’ on police culture beyond the capital as forces promise change

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Government has task to find Met chief who can reform and restore trust

    Trickiest challenge will be getting Priti Patel and Sadiq Khan to agree on Cressida Dick’s successor

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Lunch with the FT
    Police watchdog Tom Winsor: ‘I’ll arbitrate pretty much anything’

    The outgoing chief inspector of constabulary on kicking out bad cops, getting his own back on the bullies — and why he keeps 29,970 press cuttings in his shed

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Ministers defend Johnson over Downing Street party on eve of Prince Philip’s funeral

    Officials confirm that some who attended gathering had received penalty notices in relation to event

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson and Raab at odds over partygate scandal

    Deputy prime minister says those fined over affair have broken lockdown law

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Fresh calls for Johnson to quit as police confirm first ‘partygate’ fines

    UK prime minister under renewed pressure after Met concludes Whitehall officials breached their own Covid-19 rules

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Patel launches probe into departure of Met chief Cressida Dick

    Deputy Stephen House confirmed as interim commander until permanent successor is appointed

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Civil Service UK
    Head of UK civil service under investigation by police over ‘partygate’ scandal

    Simon Case’s involvement in Met inquiry puts his position under further scrutiny

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    UK police
    Met’s anti-corruption measures found to have ‘substantial weaknesses’

    Police watchdog condemns lack of progress since botched investigation of Daniel Morgan murder 35 years ago

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    London police issue more than 100 questionnaires in ‘partygate’ probe

    Downing St aides say PM Boris Johnson has not been interviewed in person by Met officers

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    Met police breached rights of Sarah Everard vigil organisers, court rules

    London’s force acted without considering whether right to protest provided ‘reasonable excuse’ despite Covid curbs

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Met police veteran Leroy Logan: ‘The force has always had an issue about race’

    The former superintendent on how to change the culture of Britain’s biggest police force — and how John Boyega changed his life

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    UK honours system
    London police sets up probe into UK honours abuse allegations

    Met’s move follows revelations that led to resignation last year of Prince Charles’ former valet

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