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Demands for GMP review to be made public amount to ‘putting politics before policing’, claims Andy Burnham

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Andy Burnham has urged people to respect the new Chief Constable’s decision to withhold an internal review into the police force for the time being - arguing anyone who fails to do so is ‘putting politics before policing’.

Speaking at an election press conference, he insisted that he does ‘take the position of openness’ wherever possible, but that the work he had commissioned in the wake of GMP being placed in special measures had only ever been intended for internal consumption.

He also said the £300,000 review, carried out by Pricewaterhousecoopers at his request, was in effect ‘an extensive slide presentation’ and not a report.

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