LEADER: Cllr Adrian Gregson THE city council s Labour leader has blamed the national mood for the party s disastrous performance in the local elections which saw the Conservatives secure an overall majority. Labour s leader Adrian Gregson, who was successfully re-elected again in Worcester’s Rainbow Hill ward on Saturday, said local Labour candidates could not compete with the tidal wave going over the country. Cllr Gregson expressed his disappointment at losing some of the council s and party s longest standing councillors Roger Berry and Joy Squires. Labour lost four seats on Worcester City Council losing previous strongholds Gorse Hill, Nunnery and Warndon to the Conservatives and the Arboretum ward to the Green Party.
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