The leader of Ashfield District Council has said he is hopeful that the area's 'salt of the earth' population will re-elect his party despite a year in which one of his councillors was convicted and five others were arrested. The authority is just one of the district and borough councils across Nottinghamshire where full elections will be taking place next May.
Jason Zadrozny first led Ashfield District Council on behalf of the Liberal Democrats between 2007 and 2009. He then regained the position in 2018 after a vote of no confidence in the Labour administration running the authority at that time.
When taking up the role of leader again, he did so on behalf of the Ashfield Independents. In the party's first electoral test at the last elections for the authority in 2019, it won 30 seats, leaving the Conservative Party with three and Labour with just two.
