Sir Steve House (pictured) will lead the Metropolitan Police until a candidate is found to succeed Dame Cressida as commissioner, the Home Secretary said.
The new Commissioner of the Met must also show the force tough love and change its racist, sexist and homophobic culture, her past and present colleagues declared today.
Priti Patel is set to trawl through candidates from as far away as Australia in her bid to purge any lingering culture that has been behind a string of recent scandals at the Metropolitan Police.