ANNE Western walked into the headquarters of Derbyshire County Council as its new leader – and said "wow".It was not in response to the rapturous applause that met her arrival, it was in response to the tally of Labour seats being displayed on a large screen."Forty-one", it read – with two seats still to be declared. Ten minutes later, those two seats also went to Labour.It was a landslide victory from a party that started the day with 23 of the council's 64...
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