Cressida Dick: Met police chief left with ‘no choice’ but to stand down – as it happened

Dame Cressida Dick says she is to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan police after series of scandals damages trust in force

• Dame Cressida Dick to stand down as Met police commissioner
• Who might replace Cressida Dick as Met commissioner?
• Police scandals and political scrutiny hastened exit of Cressida Dick

Some analysis on Cressida Dick's departure from the Guardian's Peter Walker:

While Boris Johnson's fate is ultimately in the hands of his own MPs, Cressida Dick will be excruciatingly aware that deciding that significant numbers inside No 10 broke the law, particularly if one of them is Johnson, could be the catalyst in pushing him out.

Dick is to stay in her role for what is described as a short period" while a new commissioner is appointed. If that period includes a definitive verdict on the Met investigation into No 10 parties, it will be quite the parting shot; if the investigation lingers it will be the hottest of political potatoes to pass to a successor.