Labour council leader Sir Albert Bore has successfully fended off a Tory motion to stop him holding down two high-profile public sector jobs.
The leader is paid more than £110,000 a year in total as leader of the city council and his part-time role as chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston.
Conservatives proposed a motion which would have prevented councillors, who are paid an allowance, holding down another public sector job.
Deirdre Alden (Cons, Edgbaston) said: “It is not right for councillors to take two salaries from the public purse. These are two very high profile jobs with very high salaries.”
She also cheekily suggested that he should stick to the trade union recommended 37 hour full-time job ‘for the good of his health’.
His majority Labour group, several of who also work in the public sector, easily voted down the Tory proposal.
