When the scathing report by Lady Elish Angiolini into how Wayne Couzens had managed to remain in the police to murder Sarah Everard was published recently, the chairman of the London Assembly’s police and crime committee said it exposed the “rotten foundations” of the Met.
But while most of the focus has been on the Met itself and what its leadership is doing to fix its many problems, voters are also asking what Sadiq Khan has been doing during his eight years in City Hall. The Mayor has the task of supervising the Met as part of his job, in the same way as police and crime commissioners oversee forces in other parts of the country, and has been responsible for the Met since 2016.
