Impact of the Conflict in the Middle East
Full council, 7 December 2023: a named vote.
For 22, Against 15, Abstained 5.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (22)
- Darius Laws (Conservative)
- Jeremy Hagon (Conservative)
- Kevin Bentley (Conservative)
- Leigh Tate (Conservative)
- Lewis Barber (Conservative)
- Paul Dundas (Conservative)
- Rhys Smithson (Conservative)
- Roger Buston (Conservative)
- Roger Mannion (Conservative)
- Sue Lissimore (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Chris Pearson (Labour)
- Dave Harris (Labour)
- Fay Smalls (Labour)
- Jocelyn Law (Labour)
- Julie Young (Labour)
- Lee Scordis (Labour)
- Martyn Warnes (Labour)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
- Pam Cox (Labour)
- Sam McLean (Labour)
- Tim Young (Labour)
Against (15)
- Alison Jay (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrea Luxford Vaughan (Liberal Democrats)
- Lyn Barton (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Cory (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Goss (Liberal Democrats)
- Michelle Burrows (Liberal Democrats)
- Mike Hogg (Liberal Democrats)
- Natalie Sommers (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Sam McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Appleton (Liberal Democrats)
- Tracy Arnold (Liberal Democrats)
- Amy Kirkby-Taylor (Green)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Molly Bloomfield (Labour)
Abstained (5)
- David King (Liberal Democrats)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Liberal Democrats)
- Michael Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
From the minutes
vote having been requested by Councillor McCarthy, supported by Councillors Luxford Vaughan and Kirkby-Taylor, pursuant to the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 15(2), the voting was as follows:- FOR: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Buston, Cox, Dundas, Hagon, Harris, Law, Laws, Lilley, Lissimore, Mannion, McLean, Pearson, Scordis, Smalls, Smithson, Sunnucks, Tate, Warnes, J. Young and T. Young. AGAINST: Councillors Appleton, Arnold, Barton, Bloomfield, Burrows, Cory, Goacher, Goss, Hogg, Jay, Kirkby-Taylor, Luxford Vaughan, McCarthy, Smith and Sommers. ABSTAINED FROM VOTING: Councillors King, Naylor, Rowe, Spindler and the Deputy Mayor (Scott-Boutell). The amended wording of the motion was as follows:- Colchester City Council recognises the significance of the tragic situation in the Middle East to
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