Labour mayors won’t be expelled

THE Labour Party has no intention of expelling two mayors who voted for higher bin charges and against party policy, their leader Pat Rabbitte said yesterday.

Dublin City Mayor Dermot Lacey voted for higher bin charges to save the local council from abolition on Thursday and has been removed from the Labour Party group for breaking the party whip.

But in contrast, Cork City Mayor John Kelleher, who also voted against party policy in supporting higher bin charges, has not had the party whip removed from him.