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Powys Council s opposition group leaders, clockwise from top left, Elwyn Vaughan, Mathew Dorrance, Jeremy Pugh and James Gibson-Watt OPPOSITION leaders have lambasted the handling of a controversial £1.8million Covid Recovery Fund, which will be partly used to mend potholes on Powys’ roads. Opposition leaders had hoped to scrutinise the £1.8 million pot, and the Labour leader on Powys Council had attempted to call in the application for further discussion by the committee he chairs. However, this was declined, on the basis that senior council officers said it did not meet the criteria set out in the authority’s constitution. Now a meeting to discuss that decision with council chief executive Dr Caroline Turner has also been declined – although a meeting with all council group leaders about wider issues is to go ahead – leading opposition groups to release an angry statement.