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UK Covid live: all over-18s in England should be eligible for jabs from end of this week, says NHS boss - The Guardian

UK Covid live: all over-18s in England should be eligible for jabs from end of this week, says NHS boss - The Guardian
Jun 15, 2021 2 mins, 41 secs

Home secretary to make statement in Commons after independent report finds Met was ‘institutionally corrupt’ in its handling of 1987 case.

And he says the report backs the case for phase two of the Leveson inquiry to be allowed to go ahead.

Patel says the Leveson report made a series of recommendations about the relationship between the police and the media.

She says the government consulted Sir Brian Leveson about whether or not to go ahead with phase two, and he agreed it was no longer appropriate.

Theresa May, the Conservative former PM who set up the panel when she was home secretary, says the report provides yet another example of “an organ of the state, whose job was to protect the public, prioritising the reputation of the institution over the delivery of justice”.

Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, responds for Labour.

He says paragraph 60 of the report is particularly shocking.

The family of Daniel Morgan suffered grievously as a consequence of the failure to bring his murderer(s) to justice, the unwarranted assurances which they were given, the misinformation which was put into the public domain, and the denial of the failings in investigation, including failing to acknowledge professional incompetence, individuals’ venal behaviour, and managerial and organisational failures.

The Metropolitan police also repeatedly failed to take a fresh, thorough and critical look at past failings.

He says the report recommends a “duty of candour” on law enforcement agencies.

Patel says the government tightened laws on police corruption when Theresa May was home secretary.

But she says the government must respond to this report.

She says she is writing to Cressida Dick, the Met commissioner, asking for a detailed response to the panel’s recommendations.

She says she has also written to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services asking it to consider the issues raised by the report.

Priti Patel, the home secretary, says no redactions to the report were required.

The report is over 1,200 pages long, she says.

She says the report accuses the Metropolitan police of a form of institutional corruption.

We look to the police to protect us, she says.

She says this has been “one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the Metropolitan police”.

The full report from the Daniel Morgan independent panel is here.

From the beginning, there were allegations that police officers were involved in the murder, and that corruption by police officers played a part in protecting the murderer(s) from being brought to justice.

The Metropolitan police were not honest in their dealings with Daniel Morgan’s family, or the public.

As I said, the Metropolitan police concealed from the family of Daniel Morgan, and from the wider public, the failings in the first murder investigation and the role of corrupt officers.

In 2011 the Metropolitan police said publicly, for the first time, that police corruption had been a factor in the failure of the first police investigation.

Priti Patel, the home secretary, is about to make a statement about the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry report

In a speech this morning, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said the “Johnson variant” had only fuelled so many case rises because of ministers’ “negligence and incompetence”

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