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

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Versafe.

The papers today are filled with the political fallout from the vigil for Sarah

Everard on Saturday, which transpired into ugly scenes as the Met Police started to escort attendees

from the scene. Isabelle, several papers are questioning whether Crested Dick can stay in her role

following what happened on Saturday, but so far it seems that Boris Johnson is saying she should stay in place.

Kirstama is backing that, saying she just shouldn't resign.

And there doesn't really seem too much of a political push at least for her to go.

Yeah, you've just had a few Labour backbench MPs who say that she should resign and then Sadiq Khan saying

he's not satisfied with the explanation that he's had from her about the policing tactics

that were deployed on Saturday nights. I think it's quite significant that Boris Johnson

and Priti Patel have backed her. And I think one of the reasons for this, and it's something

we've been pointing to on Coffee House over the weekend, is that the police were using their powers

that were given to them by the government that were passed by Parliament to police demonstrations,

protests, vigils and so on during lockdown. It was the health protection regulations that they were sticking to.

Now, obviously, you can have a debate about whether or not they really needed to move in at the point at which they did.

Some of the reports of them trampling flowers to get to the ban stand and so on, regardless of the regulations that are not a good look, given the

details of Sarah Everard's case. But I think that's one of the reasons why you've got politicians

not coming down like a ton of bricks on Crestedic, because her point that she will have been

making privately to them is, well, you gave us these regulations, we've been doing our job. You're the ones who have got this inconsistency, this problem with

policing of lockdown. Don't blame me. James, there's a you got poll today on whether

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