David Renard is looking forward to leading Swindon Borough Council for at least another year. After winning the elections for Swindon Borough Council on Friday, Coun Renard also won a renewed mandate from his councillors. He had been challenged for the top job by his deputy leader and cabinet member for finance Russell Holland. And Coun Renard says he believes Swindon is in a good place to be ready to move forward. But first he made the point that while elections feel like a punctuation point, the work of the council never stops. He said: “It can feel like the cycle has finished, then you have an election, then it all starts again – but actually all the old jobs of the council need to carry on, so it feels less like that to me.”