Boris: we don’t need water cannon and rubber bullets

"Common sense, traditional" British policing worked during the riots, says the Mayor.

Boris Johnson has been giving evidence on the riots to the home affairs select committee for the last half hour, and already there have been several noteworthy moments. The Mayor of London announced that the new head of the Metropolitan police would be named on Monday (you can read an interview with one of the frontrunners, Sir Hugh Orde, here) and said that he “regretted” the fact that Paul Stephenson had to resign as commissioner.

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