Cllrs Colin Mann (Plaid Cymru) and council leader Philippa Marsden (Labour) OPPOSITION parties at Caerphilly county borough council have called for the Labour group to “go back to the drawing board” with the proposed 3.9 per cent council tax increase. While the Labour-led Caerphilly county borough council has the second lowest council tax in Wales, concerns have been raised by the opposition parties over struggling residents due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 3.9 per cent increase, if approved, would be the lowest council tax increase in four years. However, the leader of Caerphilly’s Plaid Cymru group, Cllr Colin Mann, saiad that it equates to an average increase of £3.32 a week in four years. This is an extra £172.87 a year.
UK Labour Party leader drops plans to give peerage to pro-Khalistan leader
Sun Online Desk
11th January, 2021 09:24:59
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has dropped the plans to give a peerage to a leading Sikh independence supporter amid concerns over his alleged extremist links, as reported by Daily Mail on Sunday.
The leader belonging to the Labour Party is facing calls to explain his decision after friends of public official Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu said that it was ‘complete nonsense’ to say he was a fanatic.
“Mr Singh, a long-standing campaigner for the creation of a sovereign Sikh state in Punjab in India, was due to be one of six new Labour peers announced just before Christmas. But The Mail on Sunday understands that on the day of the announcement, he was told Sir Keir had withdrawn his nomination. The move came even though the House of Lords Appointments Commission, which vets peerages on security service advice, had approved the nomination,” Daily Mail report
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UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has dropped the plans to give a peerage to a leading Sikh independence supporter amid concerns over his alleged extremist li