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Why and how Labour lost two seats in the Lincoln council elections
Labour haemorrhaging support in Lincoln
From left, Conservative Councillor Matthew Fido who won in Moorland, Labour leader Ric Metcalfe and Liberal Democrat Councillor Clare Smalley who took Abbey Ward. | Images: Matthew Fido Facebook page, James Mayer for LDRS and supplied.
Labour lost two of the seven seats it was defending in the local elections for the City of Lincoln Council on May 6, Abbey and Moorland, with one of those seeing the Liberal Democrat party getting its first foothold in the city in almost a decade.
Ric Metcalfe, the Labour leader of the council, was surprised by the Abbey ward loss, but said his party did well in the grand scheme. ....

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