Steve Pitt on Portsmouth City Council now a Lib Dem majority council
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Refreshed after an exhausting local election campaign, we catch up with Cllr Steve Pitt - Leader of Portsmouth City Council and ask how the minority Liberal Democrat administration in Portsmouth was able to secure a majority & what this changes for the council and the city. We discuss LGR & devolution, and what the uncertainty over the delivery of both creates in the way of problems for the city.
We also touch on the uncertainty floating about with the Labour leadership challenge that's effectively on hold until after the Makerfield by election.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, where we discuss matters of international, |
| 0:05.4 | national and local political importance in a calm, reasonable, measured and even at times |
| 0:11.2 | dignified way to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. I'm |
| 0:17.7 | just trying to wonder where the dignified bit was. Well, I think if we |
| 0:21.1 | look at the calibre of guests we have this evening, what could be more dignified than |
| 0:28.1 | Portsmouth City Council leader, Steve Pitt? Good evening, Steve. Hello, guys. Good evening. Thanks for |
| 0:35.2 | joining us. Pleasure. So we |
| 0:37.5 | didn't try to grab hold of you on the night because |
| 0:41.3 | you were very, very busy and everyone was very, very tired. |
| 0:44.4 | And it was 4 o'clock and gone in the morning. So |
| 0:47.0 | thank you for finding time for us |
| 0:49.3 | now. Ian, do you want |
| 0:53.3 | to open up with the first question? |
| 0:54.6 | So I guess, Steve, to lead it in, undoubtedly a good night. |
| 0:59.5 | At some point people were predicting 10 even 14 wards potentially for reform. |
| 1:08.0 | You won 8, they won 5. |
| 1:09.6 | How did you manage it? |
| 1:10.6 | Well, I'm not sure that we ever actually agreed with those predictions that were being made. |
| 1:15.6 | I think it's safe to say that wasn't... |
| 1:17.6 | I guessed you might not. |
| 1:19.6 | That certainly wasn't what our information was telling us from the vast number of conversations we were having with people on the doorsteps. |
| 1:26.6 | Things were clearly moving in our direction very people on the doorsteps. |
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