The police chief who used “exaggerated and untrue” intelligence to justify a ban on Israeli football fans is clinging on to his job despite the home secretary demanding he resign. Craig Guildford, who leads West Midlands police, is determined to stay in his post for now, the Guardian has learned, despite a war of words that culminated in Shabana Mahmood declaring she had lost confidence in him. It is the first time in 20 years a home secretary has said this of a serving police leader and it came after a report savaged the force’s handling of intelligence used to...