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The Metropolitan Police has been handcuffed into ‘special measures’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary after a series of damaging scandals and “systemic failings” in the force’s work.

It means the Met will now be under intense administrative scrutiny by the watchdog.

The announcement follows outrage over awful incidents that included the rape and murder of Sarah Everard shattering public confidence, the failure to stop serial killer Stephen Port, the strip search of a black schoolgirl, Child Q, as well as not logging 69,000 crimes yearly.

Crime in the capital is up over 10 per cent, including a year-on-year 8.5 per cent rise in violence against the person — almost 250,000 crimes — sexual offences up 26 per cent and knife crime up five per cent, although homicide decreased by 10 per cent and youth homicide is down by a third.

How can the capital’s famous constabulary redeem its reputation and restore confidence among Londoners?

To examine the latest on the scandal inside Britain’s most famous police force, The Leader is joined by the Standard’s City Hall Editor Ross Lydall.

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Have you noticed chocolate bars getting smaller, crisps bags pumped with air to bulk them out and then you get the corporate cold shoulder when you try to complain?

You’re a victim of skimpflation.

Economists class skimpflation as unlike regular inflation where you pay more for the same good and services, but instead you pay the same for something that’s worse quality or wait longer for it.

So that shirt that rips in the washing machine on the first wash, or that teeny tiny chocolate bar - will it ever end, and how can we stop getting ripped off?

And as inflation roars upwards, the Institute of Customer Service says customer service complaints are at a record high - and it’s quality, reliability and availability of goods and services that top people’s list of irritants.

As inflation rockets, with the supply chain still suffering Covid fallout, how can we get a better deal?

The Leader’s joined by Professor Heather McGregor, executive dean of the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University, and formerly star of the Channel 4 show SuperScrimpers, under her nom de plume Mrs Moneypenny.

Listen to Professor McGregor’s top tips to get the value for money and how to reclaim your consumer rights.

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Behind the Alpine glad-handing at this year’s G7 summit is an agenda packed with discussion points focussing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest nations will look to reach consensus on how to deal with the war’s impact on global food and energy supply, all with the spectre of Covid’s re-emergence looming large.

At Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian Alps, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky beamed in virtually to appeal for weapons and shore up support.

It comes as Russian missiles struck the capital Kyiv over the weekend, the first attacks in three weeks.

Ahead of the G7 summit, US president Joe Biden also unveiled a financial package aimed at addressing health, climate and energy security, gender inequality and digital connectivity.

So, why is this G7 summit so critical? And what happens behind the scenes in those corridor stop-and-chats?

After awkwardness at Nato in March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did his best not to be pictured alone again at a summit, and cracked a joke about Vladmir Putin’s pectoral muscles to colleagues.

To help us unpick the policy nuance of this year’s event, we’re joined by Evening Standard deputy political editor David Bond.

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This Morning presenter, and former Saturdays singer, Rochelle Humes launched her baby hair and skincare business 'My Little Coco' just as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world.

We talk to Rochelle about:

• Why entering business was harder than breaking into showbiz
• The learning curve she faced, including an early challenge by Chanel over the word "Coco"
• Why she partnered with Boots to get her products on their shelves

This is a cut down episode of Rochelle's How to be a CEO interview: click here to listen to the full thing https://podfollow.com/how-to-be-a-ceo

For more business news, interviews and analysis go to standard.co.uk/business

This podcast was recorded at the Treehouse London Hotel.

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As crime documentaries and public court cases are growing in popularity, we speak with one of the most respected US attorneys, David S Rudolf, about why that is.

David is best known for his work defending American Michael Peterson, who was charged with murdering his wife Kathleen at their home in North Carolina back in 2001.

The case, and subsequent appeals were eventually shared in the Netflix documentary series The Staircase, in one of the most closely followed cases ever documented.

David discusses the background to his decision to become a lawyer, why the series was so special, and considers why crime docs and public court cases are so popular today.

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For the first time since 1984 polio has been found to be spreading in the UK, after being detected at a sewage works in London on three separate occasions this year.

As a result Londoners have been urged to make sure that babies and children are fully vaccinated against polio.

It is a rare disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus. 

Jane Clegg, Chief nurse for the NHS in London said that the majority of Londoners are fully protected against polio and won’t need to take any further action.

In this episode, Dr Mike Skinner from Imperial College London discusses the history of polio, how likely further community spread is, and how worried we should be about it.

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The Government has officially announced its proposals to replace the Human Rights Act in the UK with a new bill of rights.

The proposal has been described as a ‘blatant power grab’ by campaign groups, but the Justice Secretary Dominic Raab claims the new bill of rights will strengthen the ‘UK tradition of freedom of speech’, and ‘better protect the public from dangerous criminals’.

The proposed bill has been in the works since 2019 when the government’s manifesto pledged to update the Human Rights Act.

The announcement comes just days after a deportation flight taking asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was blocked by the European Court of Human Rights.

The Evening Standard’s Home Affairs Editor Martin Bentham explains what the bill actually means, and Steve Valdez-Symonds from Amnesty International tells us why he’s against the proposed bill.

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The worst train strikes in 30 years are going ahead this week, as members of the RMT Union take industrial action against plans to cut more than two thousand jobs, while calling for better pay.

It’s thought just one in five trains will run on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in what’s been called the biggest outbreak of industrial action on the railways for a generation.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has suggested the strikes are a ‘stunt’ being carried out ‘for effect’, and claimed face-to-face discussions between the government and unions don’t lead to resolutions.

We hear from Mick Lynch, Secretary General of the RMT Union about why they are striking, and the Evening Standard’s Business Editor Jonathan Prynn takes a look at how the strikes will hit London’s economy, and how much more travel disruption the capital can take.

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As London braces itself for an onslaught of industrial action across the transport network, what’s at stake, what is the Mayor doing — and will it continue for months?

We speak to transport journalist, and author of British Rail: A New History, Christian Wolmar who tells us: 

• The inside story of why negotiations are so hard
• Why both the government and unions see strikes as an advantage to them
• How TfL and Mayor Sadiq Khan are frustrated at being stuck in the middle
• How the current action hasn't been seen since 1982
• What it will take to end negotiations
• Why you should expect more strikes through summer and into the winter

You can read more analysis from Christian Wolmar at standard.co.uk, and follow our live blog for up-to-the-minute news on the rail and tube strikes. 

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Ella Mills is the founder of UK wellness brand Deliciously Ella - focused on plant-based food and improving health, which marks its ten year anniversary this year. In this episode Ella discusses how her business started as a health blog, and snowballed into a lucrative and varied business.

Listen to the full episode of How to be a CEO here.

In the full episode Ella talks about:

• Marking its ten year anniversary (1.19)
• How Deliciously Ella started as a blog (2.48)
• How Ella used plant-based food to recover from her illnesses (5.41)
• Managing to stick to a plant-based diet (8.12)
• Building a brand before building a business (10.04)
• What it's like running such a varied business (10.46)
• Ella's decision to buy out her investors (11.42)
• How Ella's been successful...despite doing some things backwards (15.32)
• Is the brand to blame for the growth in plant-based food? (16.04)
• Will there be exponential growth in the plant-based food market? (18.51)
• Might Deliciously Ella brand out into fake meat products? (21.27)
• What's next for the business? (23.01)
• Ella's hopes and wishes for 2022 (24.17)

You can check out some of Deliciously Ella on Instagram.

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