Twenty Labour councillors, including longtime leader Milan Radulovic, have defected from the party, leaving Labour without control of Broxtowe Borough Council. The move comes amid months of public disagreement between the council's Labour group and the national party leadership.
Labour has lost control of one of its key Nottinghamshire councils with just months to go until the local elections after 20 people quit the party. A shock announcement by longstanding council leader Milan Radulovic also means that Labour is no longer the party of either administration or opposition at Nottinghamshire County Council.
Councillor Radulovic, who has led Broxtowe Borough Council on a Labour platform for over 20 years across several administrations, has jumped ship along with 19 of his fellow Labour councillors. It means Labour no longer runs Broxtowe Borough Council, having only regained the authority from a state of no overall control at the May 2023 local elections. It follows months of public disagreement between Broxtowe's Labour group of councillors and the national leadership under Sir Keir Starmer. Broxtowe Borough Council was the only Labour-led Nottinghamshire council to formally criticise the decision to start means-testing winter fuel payments. Will you be voting in the local elections in May? Let us know here News of Labour losing control at Broxtowe was confirmed at an event in Beeston on Thursday (January 2), where Councillor Radulovic confirmed that he and colleagues will now be known as the Broxtowe Independents. With six of Broxtowe's previous 26 Labour councillors remaining in the party, the new group does not have enough members to run the council alone. The group is therefore set to run Broxtowe as a minority administration, meaning it will be dependent on the support of opposition parties to get measures passed. Councillor Radulovic's announcement has been made with just months to go until the Nottinghamshire County Council elections in 2025. As well as being a Broxtowe borough councillor, former Labour councillor John McGrath is also a member of Nottinghamshire County Counci
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