Date archive for December, 2008
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Friends in high places
The Damian Green affair has deepened City Hall’s already dysfunctional attitude to Scotland Yard – and, worse, the mayor of London has used his office to pressurise a police investigation into a political ally.
Sir Paul Stephenson may well have felt it was best to start as acting commissioner by keeping Boris Johnson fully informed of a sensitive operational matter. Johnson responded to his call by seeking to warn the police off.
The move did not represent the “commonsense policing” sought by [...]
