The Lib Dem motion at today’s Annual Meeting of Warwickshire County Council, to reduce the size of the Cabinet and make it balanced politically, gained the support of the Green and Independent Groups but was defeated by the Conservatives. The Labour Group abstained.

Voting figures were:  FOR 14, AGAINST 25, ABSTAIN 19.

Voters should be quite clear that it is Labour that is allowing the Conservatives to continue to run Warwickshire as a minority administration. Their reasons for doing so remain unclear, because none of their members spoke in the debate on the motion. Perhaps the fact that Labour members now chair the Council together with all its major committees might have something to do with it?