Starmer criticises government’s ‘hands off approach’ to police reform

Keir Starmer said the Metropolitan Police must change ‘from a force to a service – with public service values at its heart’. Photograph: Getty images

Keir Starmer has said that the Metropolitan police chief, Sir Mark Rowley, must act “further and faster” to deliver the change needed as a result of the Casey review

While he had confidence in the head of Scotland Yard, the Labour leader criticised the government’s “hands off approach” to delivering police reform and committed a Labour government under his leadership to introducing mandatory national rules for police forces on vetting.