Stevenage s party leaders: Conservative Phil Bibby, Labour Sharon Taylor and Lib Dem Robin Parker
- Credit: HCC
Over the weekend votes were counted and verified for the borough council election, where 14 of the council s 39 seats were up for election.
Although Labour has maintained control of Stevenage Borough Council, the party has lost six seats, five of them to the Conservatives and one to the Lib Dems.
The new make-up of the council now consists of 11 Conservative seats, 22 Labour and six Lib Dem.
Stevenage s current Labour mayor, Jim Brown, lost his seat in the Old Town ward to Conservative candidate John Duncan, meaning he will no longer be able to hold his mayoral position.
Letter: Shirley Williams obituary
Shirley Williams and Robin Parker. ‘I canvassed locally with her several times and was impressed at how good her memory was in recognising people for whom she had done casework,’ writes Parker
Shirley Williams and Robin Parker. ‘I canvassed locally with her several times and was impressed at how good her memory was in recognising people for whom she had done casework,’ writes Parker
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I first got to know Shirley Williams in 1966, when I was, briefly, a member of the Labour party, and she was its MP for Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, and a minister in Harold Wilson’s government. After a meeting about the Common Market at a hall in Letchworth the following year, I tackled her about nuclear weapons, even though the subject was not relevant to the meeting.