Decision not to resign ‘utterly extraordinary’published at 09:13 GMT
Wes Streeting: I’d very surprised if Guildford didn’t resign today
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has also appeared on Radio 4 this morning, saying he thought it “utterly extraordinary,” Craig Guildford has not yet resigned.
“I’d be very surprised if we end today without him doing the right thing,” he said.
When asked if the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Foster, should sack the chief constable, Streeting said: “He’s got a process to follow and he’s got to do the right thing in the right way.”
But added: “I find two things absolutely extraordinary about this situation.
“First and foremost that a chief constable misled Parliament and misled the public.
“And secondly, that having lost the confidence of the home secretary, in the terms she set out in Parliament yesterday, that he did not think to act with the integrity that that moment required – to submit his resignation, to offer at least his resignation.
“I find that utterly extraordinary.”
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