Sex, Lies and Police spies: The Met’s undercover police scandal
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The Role of Undercover Police in Climate Change Discontent
There was an awful lot going on, winter of discontent. The first thought in your mind is we're not quite in the same situation today as we were back then. But there is a degree of civil disobedience and unrest going on that makes me wonder, is this still happening? On that, it's actually really quite interesting footnote, just at the end of this report, which talks about the fact that they didn't infiltrate far-right groups. And so when I went to the Met Police to ask them and I spoke to Commander John Savile of the Met Police, he said: "We would never confirm or deny anything in relation to undercover policing" So I think that's the position
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