Labour has lost overall control of Exeter City Council after 14 years in power. While the party remains the largest group at the authority, it lost five councillors from the previous time the seats were up for election in 2022, taking its overall number down to 18 - two below the majority mark. The Green Party gained three seats to move to 10 seats overall and remains the second largest group at the authority while the Liberal Democrats gained a seat - taking their total to five.
"Sandra is a Blackpool landlady whose magician husband left her for his new assistant Abraca-Debra. She started as a stand-up character and was born from skits my flatmate and I were doing during lockdown when we were bored."
In making that manifesto commitment to bring the leasehold system to an end, we were not promising to immediately abolish leasehold outright. Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of leasehold knows that outright and immediate abolition of circa five million English and Welsh leases is almost certainly impossible.
Zack Polanski has kicked off a charm offensive designed to convince trade unions to stop funding Labour and throw their weight behind the Green party, as he delivered the first in a series of speeches to union conferences.
