South Ribble Labour leader 'overwhelmed' as party takes sole control for the first time in almost 30 years
The Labour leader of South Ribble Borough Council says his party’s local election victory was more due to the “good job” that it had done in running the authority over the past four years than the national political landscape.
Asked whether he would jettison the Liberal Democrats now that he no longer required their support to get Labour’s plans through the council, he said that he had no intention of casting them out. “I’m very grateful for the support they gave me over the last four years and we’ll continue to work closely with all councillors – of course we will,” Cllr Foster added.
Meanwhile, Conservative opposition leader Karen Walton – whose party now holds 16 seats, down from 23 after the vote in 2019 – paid tribute to the “hardworking” Tory councillors who had been lost. It took more than a dozen declarations during Friday’s vote count at the South Ribble Tennis Centre in Bamber Bridge before a single one of the 50 seats changed hands across the total 23 multi-seat wards in the borough. But towards the end of the day, there was a flurry of Tory falls – with Labour securing seven gains on their 2019 result.
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