What do Dame Cressida Dick and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have in common? Both were handed recent contract extensions, only to suffer a disastrous run of results and be sent packing. It remains unclear whether she will turn up at Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona once her replacement is appointed.
Dame Cressida is hardly the first Met chief to be forced out by a Mayor, who is also effectively the Police and Crime Commissioner for the capital but knows it is the Home Secretary who will ultimately appoint a new one. More on that conflict here.
