The state of the parties in the Council today is as follows:
1. Labour - 41 seats
2. Conservative - 10
3. Independents - 8
4. CAP - 7
5. Liberals - 4
6. Independent Conservatives - 4
One vacant seat.
So at the moment the Democratic Alliance of the CAP and Liberals are the official opposition. The leader of this group will be opposition leader - which means that the official leader of the opposition will represent a party that has 7 or 4 members out of 75.
But this will no doubt change. If there are any more defections from CAP the Tories will be the official opposition.
Watch this space.
2 comments:
Nigel,,How long ago was it that it was 74 Labour...1 opposition ?
Today its 41 Labour 33 Opposition.
And you find that something to gloat about ?
Be afraid Nigel....Be very afraid...
Your point about the majority is well taken by both myself and the other members of the Labour group.
I am certainly not gloating about it. I merely have stated that given the mauling the Labour Party got on May 1st up and down the country Wigan's result could have been a lot worse and we could now be in opposition.
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