Four things the Met can do to give London what it needs

MY report today, which Mayor Sadiq Khan rightly asked the Met to commission, has found that the Met is failing Londoners.

- Louise Casey

It cannot police itself, as shown by its failures to keep out or boot out wrongdoers. It is unable to protect women and children, as we have seen with far too many recent scandals. It has withdrawn from neighbourhood policing, as you have seen in your communities.

And it is riven with racism, sexism and homophobia, in the way it treats its staff and the way it polices Londoners.

All of this means the Met is rapidly losing the permission of Londoners to police them. The crucial principle is of policing by consent.