A Liberal Democrat councillor has become the new leader of Milton Keynes City Council after it became the largest party in the local elections.

Jane Carr has taken over from Labour’s Pete Marland, who stood down earlier this month after 12 years.

Carr said: “It wasn’t on my agenda, but life puts you into these situations and the public have voted in a particular way that means you have to step up and do the job.”

With no party winning enough seats for full control, Labour and the Lib Dems will again form an alliance to run the authority, with Labour’s first female group leader Lauren Townsend appointed as her deputy.

Carr grew up in a single-parent household with her mother and grandparents in a Nottinghamshire village, before moving to Grantham, the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, when she was eight.

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