Super council plans won t be brought forward despite motion being voted down
A motion calling to end the proposals was voted down - but commitments were still made
Ben Bradley MP, leader of Nottinghamshire County Council. (Image: Nottinghamshire County Council)
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Plans to create a super council in Nottinghamshire will not be brought forward - despite a motion calling to scrap the proposals getting voted down.
Ben Bradley MP elected leader of Nottinghamshire County Council
He was elected as Mansfield North councillor last week
Mansfield MP Ben Bradley has been elected leader of Nottinghamshire County Council. (Image: Andrew Topping / Nottingham Post)
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Mansfield MP Ben Bradley has been elected as the new leader of Nottinghamshire County Council.
Serving MP set to become county council leader
Serving Mansfield MP Ben Bradley (Con) is set to become the new leader of Nottinghamshire CC, creating a virtually unprecedented situation.
Cllr Bradley, who was elected as a Mansfield North councillor last week, was today confirmed by Conservative councillors as their nomination for the new leader after they took control of the council this weekend. The move awaits confirmation by the full council.
The Conservative party picked up 37 of the council s 66 available seats, having previously ruled in coalition with the Mansfield Independents.
Cllr Bradley has been a county councillor for the last four years and told Chad news site that tying the two jobs together “is the best way to get things done”.
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The Conservative MP for Mansfield has been selected as the new leader of Nottinghamshire County Council.
Ben Bradley, who has represented his constituency since 2017, was elected to his council seat last week.
Labour MPs in the area have criticised the move and questioned whether he would be claiming a full-time salary for doing the job part-time .
However Mr Bradley said he intends to earn every single penny of the salaries for both positions. Huge opportunity I think the two jobs are really beneficial, he told the BBC. One of the huge opportunities we have at the county council, that no other county council in the country has, is the ability to now take our issues in Mansfield and across Nottinghamshire down to Westminster and knock on the doors of those ministers directly.
Shock as well-known sector figures lose their seats
County Councils Network members are reeling from news that their chair David Williams (Con) has been ousted from his Hertfordshire CC seat by just 41 votes, meaning he also lost his national chairmanship.
Elsewhere, other longstanding local government figures from both main parties have also been unseated or face leadership challenges locally.
Although the Conservatives secured a majority of 14 in Hertfordshire, their leader Cllr Williams, who has been CCN chair since 2019, was narrowly beaten by Liberal Democrat candidate Paul de Kort in his seat of Harpenden North East by 2,063 votes to 2,022.
CCN’s executive committee will now work with the Conservatives, which remain the network s largest political group, to put in place an interim leader ahead of an internal election. A new chairman elect will be formally confirmed in September.