Sarah Taylor's shock resignation as police and crime commissioner (PCC) raises the prospect of an expensive county-wide election to find her successor, even the role is due to be abolished in two years time.

Ms Taylor's departure from the  £76,000-a-year role emerged late on Thursday afternoon and she released a statement on LinkedIn at 10pm citing "difficult family circumstances".

She said her family had experienced "multiple bereavements and ill health" and that a close relative had received a "life changing" diagnosis.

Ms Taylor, who has also stood down as a Breckland councillor with immediate effect, made history in May 2024 by becoming the county's first female PCC and the first Labour politician to win a Norfolk-wide vote in decades.

However, she resigned from the Labour Party last year after the government announced it would be scrapping PCCs.

Sarah Taylor left the Labour party last year after the government announced it........

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