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🗓️ 30 September 2021
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0:15.5 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:19.9 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James |
0:21.8 | Forsyth and Katie Balls. So today is the day that Wayne Cousins, the killer of Sarah Everard, |
0:26.9 | has been sentenced, and in response to that, Harriet Harmon, the Labour MP, has called for Cressida Dick to resign. |
0:33.0 | James, what's been going on? So Sarah Everard's killer was a police officer at the time of her murder. |
0:39.8 | What has come out in the last few days is that he kind of conducted a kind of fake arrest of her, |
0:46.3 | and that is what led to her getting into his car. |
0:50.5 | And Harriet Harmon's view is that the fact that someone who was a serving police officer has done this |
0:59.9 | and the fact that she thinks that various flags as to his behaviour were missed by the police |
1:07.5 | or it means that there is a breakdown in trust between women in London and their |
1:13.0 | police force and Harry Hahn believes that this can only begin to be resolved with fresh |
1:17.8 | leadership for the Met. Now, Crest of Dick was recently given an extension to her term. |
1:22.4 | I think it's fair to say that the government statement and the government briefing that |
1:27.1 | accompanied that extension. |
1:28.5 | I mean, so the Metropolitan Police Commissioner is a kind of mix of the mayor of London and the home secretary in terms of the appointment. |
1:35.3 | It was not exactly enthusiastic. It was a kind of, well, there's nobody else, so Crested Dick can stay for another two years. |
1:41.3 | I think she's in a very difficult position now because the Metrovolve keep talking about him |
1:46.5 | as an ex-police officer. Yes, he is now an ex-police officer, but at the time he committed |
1:53.9 | this awful crime, he was a police officer and he used that role to do this. And I think the other |
2:00.2 | concern that people have is he was a |
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