#DanielMorgan BREAKING: Met Police Asst. Commissioner Nick Ephgrave: "I don't accept the Met Police is institutional corrupt... It's a new term that's been coined… It's not a term people are familiar with. I don't see the evidence in front of me that supports that"
Staggering.
#DanielMorgan Asst. Commissioner Nick Ephgrave: "I've watched how the organisation has developed its ability to detect corruption in all its forms. That doesn't mean there isn't still a threat & we have to be very live to that"
Met has best anti-corruption command "in the world"
#DanielMorgan Panel: "The Metropolitan Police's lack of candour manifested itself in the hurdles placed in the path of the panel"
Asst. Commissioner: "We've done all we possibly can to provide all the information they asked for"
Met Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave says "we're always candid about our failings" 👀 #DanielMorgan
Met Police Assistant Commissioner: "It's been one of the most difficult days in the Metropolitan Police's recent history… I don't think it necessarily condemns the Metropolitan Police forever. We will recover from this, we will learn from this" #DanielMorgan
Met Police Assistant Commissioner: "We genuinely apologise for those failings and we have to move on… learning from these past errors and mistakes as best we can" #DanielMorgan
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Asks when it will be published and whether any pressure has been applied from Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks or News UK.
"Thanks to corruption in the police and inteference by News UK, the family has had no justice.
Victoria Atkins, Home Office Minister, says: it will be published when it receives it from the Panel. "One cannot block publication of a report if one has not yet received it" - says only caveat on redactions is national security/human rights considerations #DanielMorgan
Victoria Atkins doesn't answer @RhonddaBryant's question about whether Priti Patel/Home Office has had any formal or unofficial correspondence with Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks or News UK over the report; or whether meetings with them in past 12 months can be provided #DanielMorgan
Wow. Government's race commission concludes that Britain is a "model to the world" on diversity and that there is no evidence of institutional racism in Britain today. Just wow. This is a significant attempt to roll back decades and decades of hard-won progress in this country 🔽
"Increasing 'diversity' does not, in itself, tackle racism when issue is a cultural, historic identity in which racism is embedded. To the contrary, it can be a smokescreen"
I wrote about difference between 'diversity' & institutional racism last week 🔽
"What is concerning is not the issue of diversity per se but how it is increasingly being used to sidestep the systematic problems of race in Britain – which are being voiced more loudly and regularly than at any point in the past two decades"
Have asked the BBC why it doesn't appear to have reported Jennifer Arcuri's new revelations of a 4-yr affair with Boris Johnson & questions this raises about her benefiting from thousands of pounds in public money while he was London Mayor.
Hope press office doesn't ignore it 👀
And here's the response on #BBC News' lack of coverage of new revelations by Jennifer Arcuri:
BBC tells me "stories are chosen due to their editorial merit" & it "has covered the issue substantially when there have been newsworthy updates"
Catching up on @BBCPanorama & surprised not to see more headlines around its key findings – including Government counting items such as cleaning equipment, waste bags, detergent & paper towels as PPE. And *each* individual glove counted, rather than pairs
The @BBCPanorama report found instances of hospital staff being provided with aprons people would serve food in and boxes of masks with out-of-date stickers stuck over out-of-date stickers #COVIDー19
Ahead of #COVIDー19, Government bought no gowns, visors, testing swabs or body bags for its stockpiles. @Johnrashton47 told @BBCPanorama: Government failed to get a grip early, took advice from too narrow a range of people and now spinning story to say it ‘followed the science’
Whitehall officials have told @BBCNewsnight that they feel Downing Street HAS had adequate time to clear the #Russia report for publication. Officials concerned that report has been suppressed due to worries about its 'weaponisation' - which has been put before national security
Dominic Grieve: "I very much fear that the report will never see the light of day" #ReleaseTheRussiaReport
"The Government’s place is not to be assisting people who think they can’t make it on their own, it’s an absolute last emergency order” --> the words of UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights @Alston_UNSR should shame Britain & need to be publicised. My THREAD:
Professor Philip Alston said that 14 million people are in poverty in the UK (a figure the Government disputes) and that child poverty rates are “staggering” and are predicted to go up significantly over the next couple of years. #poverty#humanrights#austerity
The UN Special Rapporteur said he saw “a lot of misery” during his trip to the UK & met “a lot of people who feel the system is really there just to punish them”. People who could have gotten help in "yesterday's Britain" can no longer count on it #poverty#humanrights#austerity