Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, called the evidence “damning”.

“Baroness Casey has found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia, which I accept. She has described the Met as defensive, resistant to change and unwilling to engage with communities.”

He said he would be “unflinching” in holding Sir Mark Rowley, the new Met police commissioner, to account.

“I want to assure Londoners that I’ll be unflinching in my resolve to support and hold the new commissioner to account as he works to overhaul the force,” he said.

Since the report was published, many people have taken to social media and highlighted how the 1999 Macpherson Report resulted in similar findings with little change.

“This isn’t the first report on institutional racism in the Met,” tweeted one user. “The Macpherson Report suggested this 24 years ago. How is the same [conversation] being had decades later?”

Met police is ‘institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic’, a new review finds