WITH less than a week to go before they decide the fate of West Somerset Council, Local MP Ian Liddell-Grainger is urging the council’s 28 members to delay the ultimate decision on the authority’s future by another two months.

And with councillors due to make a decision on a possible merger with Taunton Deane Borough Council on Wednesday (September 7), Mr Liddell-Grainger has revealed that on that day he will be talking to Prime Minister Teresa May “about the entire future of our district”.

He said she is “seriously concerned” about the possible two-council merger: “She does not want to see two councils merged in unseemly haste in order to share the potential income which will begin to flow when Hinkley Point starts producing electricity,” he said.

“Mrs May believes that talks between all three councils, without pre-conditions, could deliver real savings and also protect the democratic integrity of West Somerset.”

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