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Top story: PM ‘deeply concerned’ about police tactics
Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories today.
Boris Johnson has summoned the Met police chief, Cressida Dick, for a meeting today to discuss the force’s handling of the protests over Sarah Everard’s death after expressing his “deep concern” about the ugly scenes in London on Saturday. Also present at the meeting of the government’s crime and justice taskforce will be home secretary Priti Patel, who said she was “personally upset” by images showing police pinning women to the ground at the protest in Clapham. Dick has faced down calls for her to resign amid another protest on Sunday in Westminster which police allowed to go ahead without any intervention. So far the prime minister and Patel have indicated that Britian’s top police officer retained their confidence. Patsy Stevenson, the woman pictured being held on the ground by officers,
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