Vote of No Confidence - Motion from Councillor David Whittington
Full council, 15 October 2025: a named vote, lost.
For 1, Against 23, Abstained 20.
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 (1)
- (NONE) (not matched to a member)
Against (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)
Abstained (20)
- 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)
- Adrian Owens (Our West Lancashire)
- Gordon Paul Johnson (Our West Lancashire)
- Ian Rigby (Our West Lancashire)
- Janet Ingman (Our West Lancashire)
- Linda Marjorie Webster (Our West Lancashire)
- Neil Furey (Our West Lancashire)
- Paul David Hesketh (Our West Lancashire)
- Paul Hogan (Your Party)
From the minutes
The Amendment was CARRIED. A vote was taken on the Substantive Motion, which at the request of a Member, was recorded as follows: FOR: (NONE) AGAINST: 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) ABSTENTIONS: Councillors Bailey, Blundell, Eccles, de Freitas, Furey, Gordon, Hesketh, Hogan, Howard, Ingman, Johnson, Juckes, Marshall, Mee, Owens, Pope, Rigby, Webster, D Westley, Whittington and Witter (TWENTY ONE) The Substantive Motion was LOST.
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.