Budget Proposals 2026- 2027
Full council, 5 March 2026: a named vote, lost.
For 8, Against 59, 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 (8)
- Ashley Wood (Liberal Democrats)
- Bablin Molik (Liberal Democrats)
- Dan Naughton (Liberal Democrats)
- Jon Shimmin (Liberal Democrats)
- Joseph Carter (Liberal Democrats)
- Rhys Taylor (Liberal Democrats)
- Robert Hopkins (Liberal Democrats)
- Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrats)
Against (59)
- Ali Ahmed (Labour)
- Anny Anderson (Labour)
- Ash Lister (Labour)
- Bernie Bowen-Thomson (Labour)
- Bethan Proctor (Labour)
- Bob Derbyshire (Labour)
- Caro Wild (Labour)
- Chris Weaver (Labour)
- Claudia Boes (Labour)
- Daniel De'Ath (Labour)
- Ed Stubbs (Labour)
- Elaine Simmons (Labour)
- Garry Hunt (Labour)
- Grace Ferguson-Thorne (Labour)
- Graham Hinchey (Labour)
- Helen Gunter (Labour)
- Helen Lloyd Jones (Labour)
- Huw Thomas (Labour)
- Irene Humphreys (Labour)
- Jamie Green (Labour)
- Jennifer Burke (Labour)
- Jess Moultrie (Labour)
- Julie Sangani (Labour)
- Kanaya Singh (Labour)
- Kate Carr (Labour)
- Lee Bridgeman (Labour)
- Leonora Thomson (Labour)
- Lexi Gauci (Labour)
- Lynda Thorne (Labour)
- Maliika Kaaba (Labour)
- Margaret Lewis (Labour)
- Mary McGarry (Labour)
- Michael Michael (Labour)
- Mike Ash-Edwards (Labour)
- Norma Mackie (Labour)
- Owen Jones (Labour)
- Peter Bradbury (Labour)
- Peter Huw Jenkins (Labour)
- Peter Wong (Labour)
- Russell Goodway (Labour)
- Sarah Merry (Labour)
- Stephen Cunnah (Labour)
- Sue Lent (Labour)
- Waheeda Abdul-Sattar (Labour)
- Calum Davies (Conservative)
- Catriona Brown-Reckless (Conservative)
- Jayne Cowan (Conservative)
- Joel Williams (Conservative)
- John Lancaster (Conservative)
- Oliver Owen (Conservative)
- Sean Driscoll (Conservative)
- Siân-Elin Melbourne (Conservative)
- Emma Reid-Jones (Independent)
- Peter Littlechild (Independent)
- Andrea Gibson (Plaid Cymru)
- Rhys Owain Livesy (Plaid Cymru)
- Edward Topham (Reform UK)
- Dilwar Ali (not matched to a member)
- Matt Youde (not matched to a member)
Abstained (2)
- Jasmin Chowdhury (Independent)
- Susan Elsmore (Independent)
From the minutes
ed. The Lord Mayor called for a vote on the Liberal Democrat alternative budget proposals, as proposed by Cllr Carter and seconded by Cllr Berman. The vote on the Liberal Democrat proposals was LOST. FOR (8) Cllrs Berman, Carter, Hopkins, Molik, Naughton, Shimmin, Taylor and Wood. AGAINST (59) Cllrs Abdul-Sattar, Ali Ahmed, Ali, Anderson, Ash-Edwards, Boes, Bowen-Thomson, Bradbury, Bridgeman, Brown-Reckless, Burke, Carr, Cowan, Cunnah, Davies, De'Ath, Derbyshire, Driscoll, Ferguson-Thorne, Gibson, Goodway, Green, Gunter, Hinchey, Humphreys, Hunt, Jenkins, Owen Jones, Kaaba, Lancaster, Lent, Lewis, Lister, Littlechild, Livesy, Lloyd Jones, Mackie, McGarry, Melbourne, Merry, Michael, Moultrie, Owen, Pocknell, Proctor, Reid-Jones, Sangani, Simmons, Singh, Stubbs, Thomas, Thomson, Thorne, Topham, Weaver, Wild, Williams, Wong and Youde. ABSTAIN (2) Cllrs Chowdhury and Elsmore. The Lord Mayor called for a vote on the Conservative alternative budget proposals, as proposed by Cllr Cowan and seconded by Cllr Lancaster. The vot
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