Motions
Board, 5 March 2026: a named vote on the motion, lost.
For 2, Against 20, Abstained 0.
The authority's mayor on the date: Labour (a strategic authority isn't run by a party). Each member's party is the one their home council recorded for them at the time, where the site has it.
For (2)
- Alex Wilson (Reform UK)
- Keith Prince (Reform UK)
Against (20)
- Anne Clarke (Labour)
- Bassam Mahfouz (Labour)
- Elly Baker (Labour)
- James Small-Edwards (Labour)
- Joanne McCartney (Labour)
- Krupesh Hirani (Labour)
- Léonie Cooper (Labour)
- Marina Ahmad (Labour)
- Unmesh Desai (Labour)
- Alessandro Georgiou (Conservative)
- Emma Best (Conservative)
- Lord Bailey (Conservative)
- Neil Garratt (Conservative)
- Susan Hall (Conservative)
- Thomas Turrell (Conservative)
- Caroline Russell (Green)
- Zack Polanski (Green)
- Zoë Garbett (Green)
- Gareth Roberts (Liberal Democrats)
- Hina Bokhari (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
votes being cast in favour and 21 votes being cast against. In accordance with Standing Order 2.7, a recorded vote was requested by Keith Prince AM on this motion and the votes were cast as follows: For the motion: Keith Prince AM and Alex Wilson AM. Against the motion: Marina Ahmad AM, Lord Bailey AM, Elly Baker AM, Emma Best AM, Hina Bokhari OBE AM, Anne Clarke AM, Léonie Cooper AM, Unmesh Desai AM, Zoë Garbett AM, Neil Garratt AM, Alessandro Georgiou AM, Susan Hall AM, Krupesh Hirani AM, Bassam Mahfouz AM, Joanne McCartney AM, Zack Polanski AM, Gareth Roberts AM, Caroline Russell AM, James Small-Edwards AM, Thomas Turrell AM, and Andrew Boff AM (Deputy Chair in the Chair.) 6.13 Following debate and upon being put to the vote, the motion in the name of Hina Bokhari OBE AM was not carried, with 11 votes being
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.