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Council leader Keith Aspden should resign over payout

By Reader s letter Letter Calls for council leader Keith Aspden to resign over the £400k payout to former chief executive Mary Weastell continue Chloe Laversuch’s fine revealing reporting over six pages in The Press (April 20/21) regarding York council leader Keith Aspden’s role in the Mary Weastell payout does not surprise me. Matters like these are very serious indeed - allegations of bullying and victimisation by the council leader after a suspension in 2017 over undisclosed serious allegations, and then in 2019 he gets named in an employment tribunal. Now it is out in the public domain at last. Just as serious is the misuse of taxpayers’ money that the auditors, Mazers, have made known - to the tune of nearly £118,000 being paid that didn’t have to be. Without their issuing a Public Interest Report to make all this open to the public’s attention you can be sure it would have all been kept secret, a

York deserves better and Keith Aspden should stand down - York MP

YORK Outer MP Julian Sturdy has called for City of York Council leader Keith Aspden to resign – following a damning report into the handling of a £400,000 payout to the former council chief executive. And Labour York Central MP Rachael Maskell called the episode a scandal and shared Labour councillors calls for Cllr Aspden to step down. But the Liberal Democrats, who lead the council in coalition with the Green Party, say “opposition groups continue to misrepresent an HR issue and use it for political gain, which we view to be highly inappropriate”. Mr Sturdy tweeted: “I completely agree with the [York Conservative] councillors that York deserves better and Keith Aspden should stand down to draw a line under this sad affair.

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