Met chief likely to survive calls to quit over officer’s ‘openly Jewish’ comment
by Vikram Dodd and Matthew Weaver from World news | The Guardian on (#6M7T8)
Mark Rowley believed to still enjoy confidence of home secretary and mayor of London after incident at pro-Palestine protest
The Metropolitan police commissioner is expected to survive calls for his resignation over a video of an officer suggesting that being openly Jewish" was a provocation to pro-Palestinian protesters.
A government source said that the home secretary, James Cleverly, retained full confidence in Sir Mark Rowley, and sources inside the Met rejected any suggestion that he was considering his position.
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