Our live feed has now finished.
- A third vote of no confidence in the leader of BCP Council in more than three years of the local authority’s existence is set to take place tonight.
- Christchurch Independents councillor Lesley Dedman is due to table the motion which says the Conservative leadership has brought the council into “local and national disrepute”.
- The vote of no confidence has failed.
- It was 40 against and 27 for with one abstention.
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