By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-01-02 15:56:05 | Updated at 2025-01-04 23:54:18
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Sir Keir Starmer has been rocked by a local revolt after 20 councillors quit Labour in protest about the Prime Minister’s leadership.
The group of councillors, who sit on Broxtowe Borough Council in Nottinghamshire, accused Starmer of “abandoning traditional Labour values”.
Council leader Milan Radulovic, who had been a Labour Party member for more than four decades, joined the Nottinghamshire rebellion.
Aggrieved councillors were inspired to cut ties with Starmer’s Labour following a number of controversial policy decisions, including axing Winter Fuel Payments for 10 million pensioners.
Radulovic said he was "deeply saddened" to be quitting Labour but had been placed in an "impossible position".
"I cannot support and will not support another centrist government intent on destroying local democracy and dictating national policy from a high pedestal," he said.
Taking aim at Starmer’s plans to reorganise local authorities, Radulovic added: “I believe the concentration of power in the hands of fewer people and the abolition of local democracy through the current proposals of super councils is nothing short of a dictatorship, where local elected members, local people, local residents will have no say over the type and level of service provided in their area.”
The group also claimed that 100 local grassroots members had left the Labour Party.
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