Vote of No Confidence - Motion from Councillor David Whittington
Full council, 15 October 2025: a named vote, carried.
For 23, Against 15, Abstained 6.
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 (23)
- Andy Fowler (Labour)
- Anne Mary Fennell (Labour)
- Carl Coughlan (Labour)
- Gareth Dowling (Labour)
- Gaynar Owen (Labour)
- John Fillis (Labour)
- Judy Abbott (Labour)
- Julian Antoni Finch (Labour)
- Mark Anderson (Labour)
- Maureen Nixon (Labour)
- Melissa S Parlour (Labour)
- Nicola Pryce-Roberts (Labour)
- Patricia Burnside (Labour)
- Paul Hennessy (Labour)
- Rob Molloy (Labour)
- Sarah E Lawton (Labour)
- Suresh Patel (Labour)
- Terence Devine (Labour)
- Terry Aldridge (Labour)
- Vickie Cummins (Labour)
- Yvonne Gagen (Labour)
- Nikki Hennessy (Independent)
- West (TWENTY THREE) (not matched to a member)
Against (15)
- Alexander Blundell (Conservative)
- David Westley (Conservative)
- David Whittington (Conservative)
- Edward Pope (Conservative)
- Ian Eccles (Conservative)
- John Gordon (Conservative)
- John Howard (Conservative)
- John Mee (Conservative)
- Katie Juckes (Conservative)
- Mrs Jane Marshall (Conservative)
- Robert Bailey (Conservative)
- Thomas de Freitas (Conservative)
- Ian Rigby (Our West Lancashire)
- Neil Furey (Our West Lancashire)
- Witter (FIFTEEN) (not matched to a member)
Abstained (6)
- Adrian Owens (Our West Lancashire)
- Gordon Paul Johnson (Our West Lancashire)
- Janet Ingman (Our West Lancashire)
- Paul David Hesketh (Our West Lancashire)
- Paul Hogan (Your Party)
- Webster (SIX) (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
following terms: "That the following words be added: That this Council has no confidence in the Leader of the Opposition." A vote was taken which, at the request of a Member, was recorded as follows: FOR: Councillors Abbott, Aldridge, Anderson, Burnside, Coughlan, Cummins, Devine, Dowling, Fennell, Fillis, Finch, Fowler, Gagen, N Hennessy, P Hennessy, Lawton, Molloy, Nixon, Owen, Parlour, Patel, Pryce-Roberts and West (TWENTY THREE) AGAINST: Councillors Bailey, Blundell, Eccles, de Freitas, Furey, Gordon, Howard, Juckes, Marshall, Mee, Pope, Rigby, D Westley, Whittington and Witter (FIFTEEN) ABSTENTIONS: Councillors Hesketh, Hogan, Ingman, Johnson, Owens and Webster (SIX) The Amendment was CARRIED. A vote was taken on the Substantive Motion, which at the request of a Member, was recorded as follows:
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.