From today’s Sunday Times, Page 2: -

"The problem with Ian Blair is that he is not a policeman's policeman. He is more interested in getting all the boxes ticked, in meeting targets than actually fighting crime."

It's a bizarre claim, and possibly actionable. If Boris seriously wants to cut crime, perhaps he should start with criminal libels against serving policemen?

Sadiq Khan, now Assistant Government Whip with responsibility toward Ministry of Justice legislation, has allegedly been deliberately bugged twice when visiting a constituent, Babar Ahmad, in prison during 2005 and 2006.