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LABOUR has taken control of a scandal-hit Conservative majority council due to bumbling Tory backstabbing.
Labour councillor Paul Foster was voted in as the new leader of South Ribble borough council in Lancashire last night, becoming its fourth leader in two years.
His ascension came hours after Tory council leader Mary Green resigned from the role, citing “threatening behaviour” as the reason.
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity