On the arrest of sprinter Bianca Williams, Cressida Dick tells @LBC that she doesn’t believe the video reveals racism.
“I would say any officer worth their salt would have stopped that car being driven in that matter.”
She said she only apologied for distress caused.
On the video of a man in Islington seemingly being detained with a knee on his neck, Cressida Dick tells @LBC that “techniques that you saw are not taught in training.”
She says the IOPC are investigating, so she can’t release the body worn camera footage of the incident yet.
Will the Met enforce the wearing of masks in shops when it becomes compulsory this week?
Cressida Dick tells @LBC enforcement is last resort, but:
“If somebody is concerned about what’s going on in their store of course they should call the police and we will try to assist”
Dame Cressida Dick is asked about reports that police are considering stopping the use of the term “Islamist terrorism”.
She says: “I don’t think the name should be changed, we’re not going to.”
In November 2020, the EU diplomatic service released the following communiqué. Now look where we are.
Quite apart from anything else, just last week the EU’s own Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the problem was a failure to actually use the vaccines they had. Direct quote below.
Why ban exports when you’re not even using what you’ve got?
Crowd must be several thousand strong. Now marching towards Parliament Square. The name of Sarah Everard on their lips. As well as some more colourful expressions of anger aimed at the police...
1) The DUP might have forseen that Brexit would be challenging in the context of Ireland. Not like they weren't warned.
2) They were still betrayed by Johnson, who literally stood up at DUP conference and said he would never create a sea border.
The DUP's great mistake was arguably not to support Brexit in the first place, as many Remainers are gloating today, but not to support Theresa May's compromise.
That would have left NI in a much better place from a Unionist perspective than Johnson's deal.
Although that of course is only in hindsight, post-betrayal. Harder to see at the time that May's imperfect deal was better.
You could make a kinder argument that the DUP took Johnson at his word, and that was actually the mistake.
Vaccine minister @nadhimzahawi now in front of the Science Committee. I will be watching so you don't have to ;)
Vaccine minister @nadhimzahawi tells the Science Committee that the Govt is not releasing the number of doses it expects every week, because of the way each batch of vaccine has to be checked, so the numbers "move around".
Chair Greg Clark asks if Zahawi is confident the Govt's target of 14m vaccinated by mid-Feb will be met.
Zahawi: "I'm confident we will absolutely meet our target, though there will be daily fluctuations”