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Labour accuses government of ‘lack of leadership on police standards for years’
Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, is responding to Braverman.
She says the David Carrick case shows an appalling catalogue of failures. Suella Braverman’s response was “very weak” and showed a “serious lack of leadership”, she says.
She says the Metropolitan police should have acted against Carrick much earlier. There was a rape allegation against him in July 2021, and the Met did not act, even…
