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"Another panel meeting on April 29 was sandwiched between trips to Farsley in Yorkshire that evening and Stevenage in Hertfordshire the night before. Shadow policing and crime minister Matt Vickers branded the tour a ‘cash-generating jaunt’ and fellow Conservative MP Jerome Mayhew, who represents Broadland and Fakenham in Norfolk, said Mr Sutton was ‘focusing on his side-hustle’ rather than his job. Three-quarters of the shows across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland , as well as the Channel Islands, were due to take place on weekdays Matthew Taylor, the Conservative candidate who came second in the PCC election in July, described it as ‘a sorry saga, one that erodes public confidence in those who are supposed to represent them’. South Norfolk Labour MP Ben Goldsborough added it was ‘good’ that the plug had been pulled on the tour. ‘But the fact it took a huge public backlash to make him realise that being Norfolk's police and crime commissioner should come before his career as a touring personality tells its own story,' he said."

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