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Hello, along to Coffee House Shots, it's The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I joined by James Seif and overnight we've had the news

that Crestor Dick has resigned.

But James, it's not a resignation in the purest form.

So Crested Dick yesterday morning was saying that she wasn't going to resign, but she

had always made clear that if she lost the confidence on the matter of London, Sadiq Khan, she would go. And I think that is what she felt had happened. She, Sadiq Khan had

asked her for a plan to deal with the various cultural issues in the Met, exposed by the kind of

Charing Cross WhatsApp group. She sent that to him. He said his office made clear to her that that plan was inadequate and she

would need to send something else in, at which point she decided to resign. Now, the appointment

of the MET Commissioner is a tricky situation because it basically requires the Home Secretary and

the Mayor of London to agree on a candidate because the Met

Commissioner is obviously not just the head of the London Police but also deals with various

aspects of national policing like counterterrorism, protecting VIPs, visiting heads of state,

Parliament, Buckingham, Palestine and the like. And so Pritchie Patel and Sadiq

want to agree on who the next MET Commissioner is.

Now, it is not straightforward, but that is going to happen.

For example, Neil Basu, leading officer in the Met, is admired by Sadiq Khan,

but I think he would be viewed as a no-go by Pridipatel,

partly because of his actions to policing, but also some

criticisms he had made of Boris Johnson in the past. So the question now is, who is the acceptable

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