Questions have been raised about the suitability of Liverpool Council ’s cabinet amid the energy debacle engulfing the local authority.
Mayor Joanne Anderson is expected to nominate the same seven-strong team to serve for a second year when the full council meets later this month. During a meeting of the local authority’s constitutional issues committee on Thursday, the wisdom of such a decision was called into question by opposition leader Cllr Richard Kemp.
Leader of the Liberal Democrat group, Cllr Kemp, questioned if Labour members of the committee would ask Mayor Anderson if she would consider the appointment of a cabinet member whose responsibility would be the delivery of the council’s strategic improvement programme “which we have seen is badly needed.” Cllr Kemp also asked committee chair, Cllr Ruth Bennett, if the existing cabinet would be reappointed following the “absolute mess-up” made around the electricity contract.
