Former deputy mayor to keep paid assistant role for another 6 months

Baroness Beverley Hughes, who formally resigned in January from the role which oversees police, crime, the criminal justice system and the fire service, has been working part time in a newly-created post since she stepped down.

Under the title of “assistant deputy mayor”, the former Labour MP has been helping her successor – who was also once an MP in Trafford –  as she settles into her new job.

She has been paid the same…