Labour councillor quits party citing a 'lack of faith in this Government'

PETER NORTH WILL CONTINUE AS INDEPENDENT

- By ANDREW SPENCE

A LABOUR Party councillor at Hull City Council has announced he has left the party and will continue as an Independent.

The councillor has said he believes Sir Keir Starmer's party "is no longer working towards the social change this country desperately needs".

Cllr Peter North, who represents the Bricknell ward in the council has become the latest councillor to become independent, following in the footsteps of Cllr Hester Bridges who made the same move in May.

Similarly, two Liberal Democrat councillors defected to become Independents earlier in the year.

"Recently, my membership of the party has survived because of the belief I have in Hull's Labour Councillors to fight for our city," he said in a statement. "I still firmly believe that they are much better equipped to lead Hull than the Liberal Democrat administration, that belief is no longer enough to balance my lack of faith in this Labour Government.