It’s not the greatest look for a head of the Metropolitan Police to find herself the butt of satire in a Line of Duty spoof viewed some 1.7 million times within a day of being posted. The video, which did the viral rounds this weekend, pulled together key scenes from the BBC show and edited Met Commissioner Cressida Dick into one clip featuring the fictitious Superintendent Ted Hastings — suggesting that Dame Cressida’s intervention in “partygate” has aligned London’s police force too favourably with the interests of Number 10.
But the satire struck a chord for a reason. As the Sue Gray report enters a second week of delay — with even less likelihood of being released without redactions than last Monday — some detractors are even suggesting that Dame Cressida, 61, has been deployed to kick the report into the long grass and give Boris Johnson some time to bounce back before the report delivers its hammering.
