Revenue Budget, Capital Programme and Council Tax 2026/27 KD1012893
Full council, 25 February 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 7, Against 31, Abstained 6.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (7)
- Abdullahi Nur (Labour)
- Claire Simmons (Labour)
- Kasim Ali (Labour)
- Marwan Elnaghi (Labour)
- Portia Thaxter (Labour)
- Sina Lari (Labour)
- Emma Dent Coad (not matched to a member)
Against (31)
- Anne Cyron (Conservative)
- Catherine Faulks (Conservative)
- Cem Kemahli (Conservative)
- Dahabo Isse (Conservative)
- David Lindsay (Conservative)
- Dori Schmetterling (Conservative)
- Elizabeth Campbell (Conservative)
- Emma Will (Conservative)
- Gerard Hargreaves (Conservative)
- Greg Hammond (Conservative)
- Hamish Adourian (Conservative)
- James Husband (Conservative)
- Janet Evans (Conservative)
- Joanna Gardner (Conservative)
- Johnny Thalassites (Conservative)
- Josh Rendall (Conservative)
- Kim Taylor-Smith (Conservative)
- Laura Burns (Conservative)
- Lloyd North (Conservative)
- Lucy Knight (Conservative)
- Mary Weale (Conservative)
- Preety Hudd (Conservative)
- Roberto Weeden-Sanz (Conservative)
- Sam Mackover (Conservative)
- Sarah Addenbrooke (Conservative)
- Sidney Yankson (Conservative)
- Sof McVeigh (Conservative)
- Stéphanie Petit (Conservative)
- Walaa Idris (Conservative)
- Will Lane (Conservative)
- Will Pascall (Conservative)
Abstained (6)
- Aarien Areti (Conservative)
- Tom Bennett (Conservative)
- Linda Wade (Liberal Democrats)
- Tim Verboven (Liberal Democrats)
- Eva Jedut (not matched to a member)
- Toby Benton (not matched to a member)
From the minutes
ed to the whole debate. Vote on the Labour Group's amendment to the revenue and capital budgets and Council Tax. The Mayor put the Labour Group's amendment to the vote, and the voting was as follows: For: seven. Councillors Ali, Dent Coad, Elnaghi, Lari, Nur, Simmons, Thaxter. Against: thirty-one. Councillors Addenbrooke, Adourian, Burns, Campbell, Cyron, Evans, Faulks, Gardner, Hammond, Hargreaves, Hudd, Husband, Isse, Idris, Kemahli, Knight, Lindsay, Mackover, McVeigh, Lane, North, Pascall, Petit, Rendall, Schmetterling, Taylor-Smith, Thalassites, Weale, Weeden-Sanz, Will, and Yankson. Not Voting or abstaining: six. Councillors Areti (Deputy Mayor), Bennett (Mayor), Benton, Jedut, Verboven, and Wade. The Mayor declared the amendment lost. Vote on the Revenue and Capital Budgets and Council Tax 2026/2027.
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.