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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd and Jamie Grierson

Khan criticises Rowley’s refusal to describe Met as institutionally biased

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (left), and Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, in January.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (left), and Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, in January. Khan disagrees with Rowley’s refusal to describe his force as institutionally misogynistic, racist and homophobic. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Sadiq Khan has publicly clashed with the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, saying he disagrees with Sir Mark Rowley’s refusal to describe his force as institutionally misogynistic, racist and homophobic.

The mayor of London, one of two people who appointed Rowley, spoke as the fallout from Louise Casey’s bombshell report into Scotland Yard continued.

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