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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup. On Saturday, a vigil was held on Clapham Common

in memory of Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old marketing executive who disappeared

from London streets earlier in March and whose body was later found in a Kent Woodland.

The Metropolitan Police have been criticised for their conduct in managing the crowd of several

hundred people, which saw scuffles break out and four arrests made.

Andrew Marr spoke to the Home Office Minister

Victoria Atkins about the incident. What did you think when you saw? I found it very upsetting,

of course. And we know, as I say, that the overwhelming majority of people who did go there

had a peaceful experience. But... Something Something went wrong though, didn't it?

And as I say, this is why the Home Secretary has asked the Met Commissioner for a report

because the police are operationally independent.

They have a very tough job to do.

But I think it's right that they explain their actions both to democratically elected politicians,

but also to the wider public.

On Friday, the Home Office reopened its public survey into violence against women and girls

in response to Everard's death. Sky News's Jane Secker, who filled in for Sophie Ridge this morning,

asked Atkins whether another listening exercise was the best response at this moment in time.

Pridipatel is the Home Secretary. Has she not got any ideas of her own? Why is she asking the whole

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