Council Leader and vice-chair of the York and North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel, Cllr Keith Aspden, has welcomed Phillip Allott’s resignation after losing a vote of no confidence.

Council Leader and vice-chair of the York and North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel Keith Aspden has criticised Phillip Allott for refusing to resign, despite losing a cross-party vote of no confidence.

Liberal Democrat members of the York and North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel will be proposing a no confidence motion in Phillip Allott at the panel meeting tomorrow.

Council Leader Keith Aspden has written to the Health Secretary to ask for continued long term funding for local testing and contract tracing to be delivered at least until end of March 2022.

York Liberal Democrat councillors have warned of an unfair ‘tax bombshell’ that could be passed to local communities, as Government continues to fail to live up to its promises to ‘fix social care’.

This year’s Jobs Fair saw around 50 employers gather at the York Rail Institute on the 6^th of October to offer new jobs and careers to the hundreds of visitors in attendance.

The Council’s Executive have approved plans to spend £150,000 to provide Free School Meals to beat hunger during school holidays, and a further £78,000 to fund community support schemes. 

York Lib Dem councillors have hit out at comments made by the Conservative Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner in the wake of the Sarah Everards’s horrifying murder, calling for his resignation.

Councillor Keith Aspden and the Fulford and Heslington ward committee have supported Fulford’s St Oswald's Primary School’s 250^th birthday by granting £1,500 from its ward budget for an anniversary project, which displays the original school foundation stones.

The Liberal Democrats have published figures showing that 36,340 of State Pensioners in York are set to be impacted by the Government breaking its manifesto promise and suspending the triple lock on pensions.