2026/27 Revenue Budget, Medium Term Financial Plan, and Council Tax Setting
Full council, 18 February 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 14, Against 26, Abstained 1.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Labour. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (14)
- David Jackson (MICA)
- Dennis McCabe (MICA)
- Donna Jones (MICA)
- Graham Wilson (MICA)
- Ian Morrish (MICA)
- Stephen Hill (MICA)
- David Coupe (Conservative)
- Luke Hurst (Conservative)
- Luke Mason (Conservative)
- Mieka Smiles (Conservative)
- Jackie Young (Independent)
- Jim Platt (Independent)
- Sharon Platt (Independent)
- Joanne Rush (Reform UK)
Against (26)
- Anne Romaine (Labour)
- Chris Cooke - Elected Mayor (Labour)
- David Branson (Labour)
- Edward Clynch (Labour)
- Ian Blades (Labour)
- Jack Banks (Labour)
- Jan Ryles (Labour)
- Janet Thompson (Labour)
- Jill Ewan (Labour)
- Jo Nicholson (Labour)
- John Kabuye (Labour)
- Julia Cooke (Labour)
- Julia Rostron (Labour)
- Lewis Young (Labour)
- Linda Lewis (Labour)
- Luke Henman (Labour)
- Mary Nugent (Labour)
- Nicky Walker (Labour)
- Peter Gavigan (Labour)
- Philippa Storey (Labour)
- Stella Tranter (Labour)
- Theo Furness (Labour)
- Tom Mohan (Labour)
- Dorothy Davison (MEIG)
- Christine Cooper (Reform UK)
- C Cooke (not matched to a member)
Abstained (1)
- Brian Hubbard (MICA)
From the minutes
ear days' notice. The Chair invited the Monitoring Officer to conduct a recorded vote on the motion without notice to suspend Council Procedure Rule 4.8.29 (c). The result of the vote was as follows: Votes for: (14) Councillors Coupe, Hill, Hurst, Jackson, Jones, Mason, McCabe, Morrish, J Platt, S Platt, Rush, Smiles, Wilson, J Young. Votes against: (25) C Cooke, (Elected Mayor), Councillors Banks, Blades, Branson, Clynch, J Cooke, Cooper, Davison, Ewan, Furness, Gavigan, Henman, Kabuye, Lewis, Mohan, Nicholson, Nugent Romaine, Rostron, Ryles, Storey, Thompson, Tranter, Walker, L Young. Abstentions: (1) Councillor Hubbard. On a vote being taken the procedural motion was REJECTED. Councillors Mason and spoke on the proposed budget and the Mayor responded. Councillors He
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