Labour Herts county councillor defects to Lib Dems three weeks after election

Labour Herts county councillor defects to Lib Dems three weeks after election

Cllr Tina Bhartwas said the party no longer represented the values of equality and social justice.

Labour deputy group leader Tina Bhartwas joins Lib Dems

Cllr Tina Bhartwas, previously deputy leader of the Labour group on Hertfordshire County Council, has joined the Liberal Democrats. The Bishop’s Stortford Independent reports: Cllr Bhartwas blamed a growing discomfort with some national Labour policies for her decision and said it was something she had been considering “for some time”. She said that having experienced the “devastating impact” of welfare cuts herself growing up, she could not st…