Mamdani plans to break up the NYPD's Strategic Response Group, which handles civil unrest, major public events, and counterterrorism, raising immediate concerns about who will actually maintain order when riots involving far-left activists break out.
The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards is investigating a WhatsApp group used by officers in its East Area command, after messages allegedly included racist remarks about white people. Twenty-two officers have been placed on restricted duties. The force says that, at this stage, there is no indication the activity meets the criminal threshold.
Mohammed Alfatih, 40, reported to have been a bodyguard to Ismail Haniyeh, was granted asylum by David Cameron's government in 2015 and citizenship under Boris Johnson and Priti Patel in 2020. A Birmingham jury has now convicted him of unlawfully wounding a bailiff. Germany wants him extradited over an alleged plot to attack Jewish targets — a plot he has not been tried for.
Britain's foreign-born population has risen 55 per cent since 2015 to 13.1 million, or 19 per cent of the population, according to the OECD's International Migration Outlook, published on Thursday. The foreign-born share rose by six percentage points, the largest increase in the G7, though Germany was close behind and the United States and Germany added more people in absolute numbers.