The inquest into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes starts today. Whatever the findings, it will mean a difficult period for the Met in general and Sir Ian Blair in particular, the events at Stockwell and the reaction to those events will all be back as front page news.
This inquest will run concurrently to the investigation into Sir Ian's involvement in the Impact Plus tender and Tarique Ghaffur's employment tribunal.
When troubles come they come not as single spies but in battalions. I decided to use this headline today but had a nagging feeling that I had used it before, I looked back through the archive and indeed I had. It was almost exactly a year ago on the 19th September 2007 and I was writing about Sir Ming Campbell, he was gone within a month!
I'm not reading anything into that.
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James thought you be intrested. I though you guys had taken tis moron out?
Lee jasper writes.
Boris is responsible for policing and crime. Oh Joy!
The real consequences of the civil war at the MPS will be brought home to London Mayor Boris Johnson and his hapless Deputy Mayor responsible for policing on the 6th October. This will be the first meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority that Boris Johns will chair. When I heard he had really decided to take the position of Chair instantly though that this would probably be a brilliant inspired move or lead to a political debacle of the first order. Witnessing the competence of the Johnson administration I am now betting on the latter not the former.
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