Labour should stop selecting 'husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, mums and dads’ for council seats, Tory claims
direct to your inboxTameside’s Labour group should stop selecting their ‘husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, mums and dads’ to stand for election if they want the town hall to be ‘more diverse’, a Tory opponent has claimed.A row broke out at a meeting of the full council after a Conservative Stalybridge South councillor was critical of the numbers of couples and relatives that were represented at the town hall. An assessment by the Local Democracy Reporting Service has found that there are four pairs of couples, three siblings and two child and parent duos serving on Tameside council.