I will be sad to see Mike Davey step down as leader of the city council, and will greatly miss Alice Gilderdale and Sam Carling as they leave the council at the end of April.
Politics is about constant change, and I’m sure we’ll get excellent Labour city councillors to replace Alice and Sam after the by-elections on May 1, and I know that within the Labour group we will find the right people to replace Mike as leader and Alice as deputy leader.
But while they are all still here, I want to thank all three of them for being such great colleagues, such strong advocates for the people of Cambridge (and in Sam’s case, for his constituents in North West Cambridgeshire since his election to Parliament last July as part of Labour’s landslide), and such effective leaders.
I could not have achieved what I have without the support they have given my in my role as ward councillor and executive for planning, building control, and infrastructure, or on the many bodies that accumulate around a councillor’s role such as chairing the East West Rail Partnership and attending the Greater Cambridge Partnership.
I wish Alice all the best as she moves to London, will be watching Sam achieve great things in the House of Commons, and trust Mike gets to see victory after victory in the Habbin end of the Abbey stadium.