Word reaches me Cllr John Carnall was elected (without contest) at the first Conservative Group meeting since the local elections on Friday evening taking over from Cllr Liz Harsant who was Group Leader for six years.

Cllr Carnall has strong Conservative convictions and will make an excellent Tory Group Leader on Ipswich Borough Council.  Now we are no longer in coalition with the Liberal Democrats at the Council, Cllr Carnall is the ideal Leader to take the fight to Labour after the consensual Harsant years.