Whitby Mayor calls for Philip Allot to resign
Linda Wild wants North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner to stand down after his comments about Sarah Everard.
The Town Mayor of Whitby, Cllr Linda Wild is calling for North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner to step down.
After the comments by Philip Allott on Friday 1 October, from which he has sought to distance himself, the Town Mayor of Whitby, Cllr Linda Wild has rejected his retraction as insufficient.
Speaking today, Cllr Wild said:
“There are universal calls across North Yorkshire and beyond for Philip Allott to resign as Police and Crime Commissioner for this county – and he should. His broken philosophy and Victorian, patriarchal attitudes defy belief and common sense. He has insulted every right-thinking person who lives here.
Specifically and particularly, he has insulted every woman. He has diminished the office of PCC. He has increased doubt and mistrust in the police and weakened the concept of policing by consent. There is no place for him in North Yorkshire or in public office anywhere.”