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'Unhappy' Labour councillor defects to new political party
The Sentinel
|September 13, 2025
He says they've 'let down communities'
A LABOUR city councillor has defected to a new Stoke-on-Trent political party.
David Mountford, councillor for Great Chell and Packmoor, has become the Potteries Party's first member on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Cllr Mountford, who was first elected in 2023, says that Labour 'has let down the communities' that voted for them, and now imposes 'the very hardships it was trusted to alleviate.'
At Thursday's full council meeting. Cllr Mountford spoke out against the Labour-run city council's plans to develop fields outside Packmoor with up to 800 homes.
A total of 1,130 residents signed a petition opposing the council's decision to draw up a masterplan for the Packmoor land.
This story is from the September 13, 2025 edition of The Sentinel.
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