Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest

Rowley says officers should not be ‘policing toxic culture wars debates’ and are in an impossible position

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police commissioner, has said officers should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates” as the Father Ted creator Graham Linehan vowed to sue after his arrest over social media posts.

Rowley said “policing has been left between a rock and a hard place by successive governments”, with the law offering officers no option but to investigate Linehan’s tweets.