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Plymouth Labour’s Shadow Cabinet announced by Tudor Evans

The Leader of the Labour Group on Plymouth City Council has chosen his top political team for the new Council year.

Councillor Tudor Evans as the Leader of the Labour Group remains as Leader of the Opposition in the Cabinet, alongside his Deputy, Peter Smith who shadows Community Services (Safer & Stronger Communities, Leisure Culture and Sport). Sue Dann will take the Customer Services brief, whilst Mark Lowry will keep an eye on budgetary matters, along with the property and personnel functions.

Three new members of the shadow team are Brian Vincent, who will take Transport, Bill Stevens (Planning and Strategic Housing) and Nicky Williams, who will look at the Performance of the Council.

The team has a mixture of old, new and returning faces as the Party gears up for what it describes as a fight “to save public services from being decimated by the Conservative/Lib-Dem government.”

Cllr Evans said: “I think the team is balanced and very able. It needs to be self-reliant, because the Labour Councillors have a real fight to be heard at the moment.

“Although the new Government will enjoy a honeymoon period, this Tory Council is in its fourth year and the extra £6billion of cuts that will come this year are all at the behest of the Tory/LibDem government in London. These are extra, deeper cuts to the money earmarked for Councils like Plymouth. It is ideology driving these cuts, not economics.

“There are no excuses for the Tories in Plymouth any more.”

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• "Keep Moor View in Plymouth" boundary campaign launched - 7 November 2011