Appointment of the Leader of the Council
Full council, 27 May 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 18, Against 29, Abstained 3.
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 (18)
- Carl Powling (Conservative)
- Darius Laws (Conservative)
- David Linghorn-Baker (Conservative)
- Dennis Willetts (Conservative)
- Jeremy Hagon (Conservative)
- Kevin Bentley (Conservative)
- Leigh Tate (Conservative)
- Lewis Barber (Conservative)
- Martin Parsons (Conservative)
- Paul Dundas (Conservative)
- Rhys Smithson (Conservative)
- Robert Davidson (Conservative)
- Sara Naylor (Conservative)
- Sue Lissimore (Conservative)
- Thomas Rowe (Conservative)
- Will Calverley (Conservative)
- William Sunnucks (Conservative)
- Sean Kelly (Liberal Democrats)
Against (29)
- Claire Osborne (Labour)
- Dave Harris (Labour)
- Fay Smalls (Labour)
- Julie Young (Labour)
- Kayleigh Rippingale (Labour)
- Lee Scordis (Labour)
- Michael Lilley (Labour)
- Richard Bourne (Labour)
- Tim Young (Labour)
- Alison Jay (Liberal Democrats)
- David King (Liberal Democrats)
- Mark Cory (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Goss (Liberal Democrats)
- Natalie Sommers (Liberal Democrats)
- Sam McCarthy (Liberal Democrats)
- Simon Appleton (Liberal Democrats)
- Venessa Moffat (Liberal Democrats)
- Andrew Harding (Reform UK)
- Daryl Swain (Reform UK)
- James Child (Reform UK)
- Mike Saunders (Reform UK)
- Sue Ettritch (Reform UK)
- Chris Pearson (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Lesley Scott-Boutell (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Martyn Warnes (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Sam McLean (Progressive Independents Alliance)
- Mark Goacher (Green)
- Kirby-Taylor (not matched to a member)
- Çufoglu (not matched to a member)
Abstained (3)
- Catherine Spindler (Liberal Democrats)
- Paul Smith (Liberal Democrats)
- Luxford-Vaughan (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
d FOUR ABSTAINED from voting). A named vote was requested by Councillor Hagon, supported by two councillors, pursuant to the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 15(2), and the voting was as follows: FOR: Councillors Barber, Bentley, Calverley, Davidson, Dundas, Hagon, Kelly, Laws, Linghorn-Baker, Lissimore, Naylor, Parsons, Powling, Rowe, Smithson, Sunnucks, Tate and Willetts. AGAINST: Councillors Appleton, Bourne, Child, Cory, Çufoglu, Ettritch, Goacher, Goss, Harding, Harris, Jay, King, Kirby-Taylor, Lilley, McCarthy, McLean, Moffat, Osborne, Pearson, Rippingale, Saunders, Scordis, Scott-Boutell, Smalls, Sommers, Swain, Warnes, J. Young and T. Young. ABSTAINED: Councillor Luxford-Vaughan, Spindler, the Deputy Mayor (Smith) and the Mayor (Ellis). The Monitoring Officer explained that in the absence of Council electing a leader, he recommended that the meeting be adjourned and reconvened at a future date when the election of a leader could be considered further. In accordance with the provisions
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