Leadership of Portsmouth City Council due to be decided at meeting today

By Fiona Callingham
Published 14th May 2019, 10:42 BST
From left, Labour leader Stephen Morgan, Conservative leader Donna Jones and Lib Dem leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson Picture: Habibur RahmanFrom left, Labour leader Stephen Morgan, Conservative leader Donna Jones and Lib Dem leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson Picture: Habibur Rahman
From left, Labour leader Stephen Morgan, Conservative leader Donna Jones and Lib Dem leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson Picture: Habibur Rahman
LEADERSHIP at Portsmouth City Council could be in for a shake-up next week as councillors meet for the first time since elections.

At the inaugural full council meeting of this political year later today the administration is due to be decided with everything to play for following the inconclusive results of the recent elections that gave no party a majority.

Current council leader and head of the city's Liberal Democrats, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, could be re-elected if councillors vote in his favour.

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But former leader and Conservative boss Cllr Donna Jones is also in the running as her party only holds two fewer seats than the Lib Dems.