Calls for MP to quit Plymouth City Council

...BUT SHE SAYS A BY-ELECTION WOULD END UP COSTING MORE

- By ALISON STEPHENSON

TWO of Plymouth’s long serving councillors are calling on fellow member and now MP Rebecca Smith to resign from the city council after she failed to attend any of her scheduled meetings since May.

Cllr Smith, who still represents Plymstock Radford on Plymouth City Council despite being elected as the member of parliament for South West Devon in the July 2024 General Election, was scheduled to attend the city council on May 16, June 2 and September 15 of this year but sent apologies.

Independent councillors Patrick Nicholson and Terri Beer, who both represent Plympton, said Cllr Smith's only attendance at a city council meeting since the beginning of the municipal year had been for 21 minutes as a substitute member for Cllr Ian Darcy (Con, Plympton St Mary) at the planning committee on June 26.

The pair will submit a motion to the next full council meeting calling for her to resign.