Not Much like Consent
Daniel Trilling: Crisis at the Met, 30 March 2023
Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police
by Tom Harper.
Biteback, 446 pp., £20, October 2022,978 1 78590 768 5 Show More
by Tom Harper.
Biteback, 446 pp., £20, October 2022,
Tango Juliet Foxtrot: How Did It All Go Wrong for British Policing?
by Iain Donnelly.
Biteback, 341 pp., £20, November 2021,978 1 78590 716 6 Show More
by Iain Donnelly.
Biteback, 341 pp., £20, November 2021,
“... the 1980s, the Met was a key part of the coalition of interests that underpinned the Thatcher government. Together, the Conservative Party, the police and the right-wing press successfully undermined the power of the unions, by legislating against them, physically attacking their members (as officers from the Met and other forces did at Orgreave ... ”