Goodness, isn’t there something a bit hoary about the notion that members of the Metropolitan Police may have to declare if they’re Freemasons? The idea has come up recently in the context of discussion on ‘declarable associations’ – those organisations you’re obliged to admit to belonging to if you’re a London copper.

A spokesman for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who is in charge of the Met, has previously ruled out a compulsory register of Freemasonry in the force, but a spokesman for the mayor said improving standards in the Met ‘involves looking at organisations, including the Freemasons, and consulting to see if membership of these groups could call impartiality into question or give rise to any conflicts of loyalty when it comes to investigations, misconduct and promotions’.

So,

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