A question of balance
Tomorrow's full council meeting should learn who is being promoted to the Cabinet, to fill the vacancy caused by Sally Bain's resignation. Given that Neil Burden has already been reshuffled into her children's services portfolio, there is now much chatter about the need to maintain gender as well as political balance - which narrows the field to one of nine Conservative women councillors currently on the backbenches.

I'm ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Devon’s Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
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