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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd

No clear winners after Winsor report on Cressida Dick’s exit

The then Met police commissioner, Cressida Dick, with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, in June 2017.
The then Met police commissioner, Cressida Dick, with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, in June 2017. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Amid the claim and counter-claim, the huffing and puffing and the machinations detailed by Tom Winsor’s report on the ousting of Cressida Dick, one thing is clear: there definitely was a political hit job. The mystery is: who was the target?

Winsor’s version has Dick, a hard-working Metropolitan police commissioner, taken out by an ambitious local politician, when the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, had no good reason to.

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