Following the announcement of the results of the Brighton and Hove City Council elections, Labour are today sending out a message of congratulations to all candidates who were successfully chosen by local people to represent their communities in the city council.

Having won 5 new seats, Labour is obviously disappointed not to have won more especially when the Party was so close in percentage terms to the number of votes that the Greens received. Labour received 32% of the city vote with the Greens on 33%.

Labour Group Leader Councillor Gill Mitchell said,

“With the Greens having 23 seats they are clearly able to form a minority administration to run the council. Labour successfully ran the council with the same number of seats between 2003 and 2007 and the Conservatives governed with 26 seats for the past four years so it is right that the Greens, as clear winners, are given the opportunity to implement their manifesto in the same way.

“We will support the Greens where they bring forward sensible proposals in the best interests of the city as well as being an effective and challenging opposition when we think they are getting things wrong.

“We will now take stock and work to build up the trust and support of local people in this city as well as continuing to campaign to make it a better and fairer place to live.”