A former councillor who launched a “soft porn” YouTube channel that saw her read erotic poetry in “sexy police gear” wants to stand - as a Police and Crime Commissioner.

Self-confessed "attention seeker" Anna Semlyen, 51, set up Anna's Authentic Arts.

It is a “mixed arts” channel offering erotic poems during lockdown as she was feeling “lonely” and “depressed”.

Now, she is fighting for one of the top policing jobs to increase “woman safety”, “road safety” and to prevent a “medical apartheid".

Miss Semlyen, who was elected as Labour councillor in 2011, put her name forward for the £74,440 a year position after Mr Allot stepped down following a backlash after he urged women to be more “streetwise” following Sarah Everard’s death.

She said: “If you look at women’s safety overall – it’s not just sexual safety but road safety.

“The number of women who are experiencing problems to do with the patriarchy and the entitlement of men, not just the males gaze but comments that are unwanted all the way up to rape and abuse and murder, as happened to Sarah Everard, is more concerning than ever.

“Phillip Allot made comments about arrest procedures that were totally inappropriate.

“He was telling women to understand their arrest rights, and for that, he had to resign. This is why women’s issues are at the forefront of this election."