Notice of Motion - First Citizen - Strengthening Public Confidence in Civic Leadership
Full council, 22 April 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 19, Against 28, Abstained 2.
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 (19)
- Adam Tinsley BEM (Conservative)
- David Fisher (Conservative)
- Greg Reynolds (Conservative)
- John Blackham (Conservative)
- Joshua Bacon (Conservative)
- Lynda Stables (Conservative)
- Tom Collingham (Conservative)
- Zachary Collingham (Conservative)
- Ashiq Hussain (Independent)
- Ian Jones (Independent)
- Jodie Ryalls (Independent)
- Marnie Havard (Independent)
- Rob Elliott (Independent)
- Simon Currie (Independent)
- Taiba Yasseen (Independent)
- Adam Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Charlotte Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Mick Bower (Green)
- Tony Harrison (Reform UK)
Against (28)
- Amanda Clarke (Labour)
- Angham Ahmed (Labour)
- Brian Steele (Labour)
- Cameron McKiernan (Labour)
- Chris Read (Labour)
- Dave Jackson (Labour)
- Donna Sutton (Labour)
- Eve Rose Keenan (Labour)
- Gillian Garnett (Labour)
- Gina Monk (Labour)
- Joanna Baker-Rogers (Labour)
- John Williams (Labour)
- Linda Beresford (Labour)
- Liz Duncan (Labour)
- Lynda Marshall (Labour)
- Nigel Harper (Labour)
- Rachel Hughes (Labour)
- Rajmund Brent (Labour)
- Robert Taylor (Labour)
- Rukhsana Ismail (Labour)
- Saghir Alam OBE (Labour)
- Sarah Ann Allen (Labour)
- Sheila Cowen (Labour)
- Terry Adair (Labour)
- Victoria Cusworth (Labour)
- of Rotherham (Councillor Haroon Rashid) (Labour)
- Dave Sheppard (Independent)
- Michael Bennett-Sylvester (Independent)
Abstained (2)
- Dominic Beck (Independent)
- Denise Lelliott (Labour)
From the minutes
ing a formal protocol, or · incorporating agreed arrangements into the Constitution. In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 19(2), a recorded vote was requested and taken for this item as follows: For: Councillors Bacon, Blackham, Bower, A. Carter, C. Carter, T. Collingham, Z. Collingham, Currie, Elliott, Fisher, Harrison, Havard, Hussain, Jones, Reynolds, Ryalls, Stables, Tinsley and Yasseen. Against: Councillors Adair, Ahmed, Alam, Allen, Baker-Rogers, Bennett-Sylvester, Beresford, Brent, Clarke, Cowen, Cusworth, Duncan, Garnett, Harper, Hughes, Ismail, Jackson, Keenan, Marshall, McKiernan, Monk, Rashid, Read, Sheppard, Steele, Sutton, Taylor and Williams. Abstain: Councillors Beck and Lelliott. The motion fell.
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