The Labour Party leadership says the coalition running North Somerset Council can continue, as it orders Labour councillors to break off coalitions with the Greens at 11 other local authorities. Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) said in October that it would end all power sharing agreements with Green Party councillors who would not renounce the party’s controversial new “Zionism is racism” policy. The two parties have been part of North Somerset’s multi-party partnership administration since 2019. The NEC has now announced that North Somerset is one of just six local authorities where power sharing will continue. Green councillors in North...