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Feb 2022
33m 41s

Cressida Khan’t Carry On

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is stepping down after Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, said he no longer has confidence in her leadership.

On the day of the PM’s diplomatic trip to Nato, Laura’s in Brussels joining Chris and Politics Live’s Jo Coburn to tell us how the talks on Ukraine and Russia are going.

And Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy tells us what it was like being with the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, when they were mobbed by protesters.

Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Sally Abrahams and Alix Pickles. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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