![]() “This experience has not been what I was led to believe. We were all so excited when we heard the £500million was being announced for St Helier, but we were told we had to campaign against it as St Helier is one of the only reasons people used to vote LibDem. “I also cannot support my party’s U-turn on St Helier. “I can’t keep asking my family to go through this. I was told it would be easy and I’d be well-paid, but it’s been hell frankly and the party’s been no help at all. “I was promised a lot by the party when I agreed to stand. In the debate, Colburn read from the message he’d received: “As you may know, I am standing down as a LibDem councillor. Time to go: council deputy leader Annie MoralĬolburn, who is also a councillor in Sutton, declined to identify his council colleague by name.īut Inside Sutton can reveal that the councillor in question is Moral.Ĭolburn was speaking in a health debate about future plans for St Helier Hospital, which the Tories are seeking to downgrade, including removing its vital maternity and A&E functions. Moral’s decision to withdraw from the council has come to light after the Conservative MP for Carshalton and Wallington, Elliot Colburn, read a message in a Westminster debate on Wednesday which he said was from a disenchanted and very disappointed Sutton LibDem councillor. The LibDems have been the majority group on Sutton Council for 36 years, but the 2022 exodus of nearly half their councillors suggests that could all be about to change in five weeks’ time. ![]() The LibDems won 33 council seats at the last council elections in 2018. Moral is among 14, perhaps even as many as 15, LibDem councillors whose names won’t be on the finalised declaration sheets of candidates for the 2022 elections when they are formally released next Tuesday. Ruth Dombey’s deputy mayor on Sutton’s Liberal Democrat-controlled council is quitting at the local elections next month because she has been “betrayed, let down and hurt”.Īnnie Moral has been a councillor for St Helier ward since 2018. A councillor called ‘Moral’ has taken a principled stance against her erstwhile party colleagues.ĮXCLUSIVE b y CARL SHILTON, investigations editor ![]()
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