How Cressida Dick refused to resign as Metropolitan Police commissioner through succession of scandals

‘No one likes us, we don’t care,’ former commissioner quipped to a police conference, Lizzie Dearden writes

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Dame Cressida Dick once quipped that the Metropolitan Police was like Millwall FC, quoting its chant: “No one likes us – we don't care.”

It fits as a personal mantra for the former commissioner, who resisted numerous calls to resign during her tenure.

Perhaps it was unsurprising that the officer who remained at Scotland Yard after overseeing the 2005 operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes should be so apparently impervious to criticism.