Tories fail in bid to replace council's Labour leader in tense vote |
AN attempt to oust Monmouthshire County Council’s Labour leader, and replace her with a Conservative, has failed.
Labour took over at County Hall in Usk when the Conservatives lost their majority at the 2022 local government elections, and formed a minority administration led by Llanelly Hill councillor Mary Ann Brocklesby.
Labour runs the council in a coalition with the single Green Party councillor but suffered a blow last October when the Conservatives took the Monmouth Town ward seat Catherine Fookes resigned following her election as Monmouthshire’s Labour MP at the July 2024 general election.
The Labour group has since had to rely on the council chairman’s casting vote on a number of occasions in the chamber which the Tories tested at the annual general meeting when they nominated their leader, Mitchell Troy and Trellech........