christine jardine.ruption unit at the metropolitan police are being investigated over claims they covered up or failed to properly pursue allegations of wrong—doing by other officers. the independent office for police conduct, which is carrying out the investigation, says a number of other officers are also being assessed. a little earlier, i discussed this with our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. he started by giving some background to the case. this is the department, the director of professional standards at the metropolitan police, that itself investigates problems with police officers, either criminality by police officers or breaches of police officers or breaches of police guidelines, misconduct. the police guidelines, misconduct. the police watchdog today says that it is investigating a series of allegations against officers working within that directorate. i understand they are to do with effectively helping fellow officers who are under investigation themselves for a range of things.

christine jardine, thank you. you are welcome.re welcome. three members of the anti—corruption unit at the metropolitan police are being investigated over claims they covered up, are failed to properly pursue allegations of wrongdoing by other officers. the independent office for police conduct, carrying out the investigation, says a number of other officers are being assessed. let's talk to tom symonds, who is at scotland yard. tell us more about the background? this is the department, the directorate of professional standards at the metropolitan police, that itself investigates problems with police officers, either criminality or breaches of guidelines, misconduct. the police watchdog noted a says it is investigating a series of allegations against officers working within that directorate. i understand they are to do with effectively helping fellow officers who were under investigation themselves for a range of things, for example, fraud and child abuse and misconduct in other ways. either interfering with those investigations a

christine jardine is a liberal democrat mp who thinks britain should leave the eu and that a final brexiter should be doing today? the basic problem here is time has run out. in a few months, we need to sign up to the terms of withdrawal. which will involve us handing over a0 to £50 billion to the eu, so it is vital we have that deal in place for future terms when we hand over the money. they are going to have to sit in that room and decide on how they are going to go forward. frankly i would not let them come out until they have got an answer. surely, christine, that is virtually impossible. you have so many rifts in that cabinet, there is no way there will be a solid agreement within that room.|j no way there will be a solid agreement within that room. i must just clarify one thing first, i don't think britain should leave the eu,i don't think britain should leave the eu, lama don't think britain should leave the eu, i am a liberal democrat, we believe leaving the eu is the worst possible thing. apologies if we said that. that's ok. thank you for clarifying. chuckles but, yes, the numbe