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Cressida Dick’s resignation prompted a bitter row between the Home Office and City Hall, with Priti Patel reportedly unaware of the commissioner’s intention to step down

Hunt on for suitable vessels, but James Heappey won’t say what they will be – in case ‘price goes up’

Priti Patel has called in a former Australian government minister to oversee the assessment.

Alexander Downer negotiated Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’ to detain asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island

Priti Patel says decision is part of crackdown on ‘corrupt elites who threaten our national security’

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Exclusive: Actions of force ‘have further eroded trust of ethnic minority communities in London’, letter claims

Government under growing pressure to crack down on kleptocrats’ flow of funds

There was something that didn’t quite stack up about Dame Cressida Dick’s departure last week. The first-ever female Met Commissioner resigned a few hours after Sadiq Khan told her she’d lost his confidence, without even bothering to include the Home Secretary in the conversation.

Assembly members warn law will make ethnic minorities into second class citizens

Home secretary is understood to be keen on outsider to head London force who could push through reforms