Will KCC be under new leadership next year?

According to reporting from Simon Finlay on the West Kent Radio website, about half of the Conservative Kent County Councillors are due to step down before the 2025 local elections.

If the general election is anything to go by, the Conservatives could be reduced to 17 out of 61 seats in the May 2025 election. The two biggest threats to their power are (the article suggests) The Liberal Democrats and Reform UK.

But the Conservatives will fight the election against the backdrop of a hammering to Labour at the general election and having made tens of millions of pounds worth of cuts to residents’ services as KCC struggles to avoid going bust.

Up to half KCC Tories are to stand down at next election, West Kent Radio

• Do you think that the Conservatives can hang on to power in KCC?
• Will a change of leadership be enough to save Millmead Children’s Centre?
• Which party will get to name the new KCC leader?