Wayne Couzens: Sarah Everard’s killer should never have been a police officer, inquiry says

Returning to the Commons, where Home Secretary James Cleverly has just delivered a statement on the report, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper is now responding.

She says though she agrees with most of what Cleverly has said in the last few minutes, his response to the Angiolini report is “too weak, it is too little and it is too late, and the lack of urgency is unfathomable to me”.

She says the government was repeatedly warned about vetting failures and misconduct over the last decade or so.

All the government has done is bring in a code of practice two and a half years after Sarah’s murder, “which isn’t strong enough”, she says.

Cooper says most of the misconduct changes Cleverly referred to in his response moments ago are not in place yet.

She asks him to commit to a mandatory framework for vetting, backed by legislation, and commits the Labour Party to support such an initiative.

At minimum, she asks him to accept Angiolini’s sixth recommendation, to review indecent exposure and other sexual offence allegations against serving police officers.