Politically Restricted

What are political assistants and what unique role do they play in our local democracy?

When I was planning out this weekly column, one idea was to look at questions asked during full council meetings that may or may not have been answered at the time. The earliest full council records publicly available online date from October 2001, so that is where we shall start.

At the time, Medway Council’s Leader was Cllr Rodney Chambers, and during…