Appalled that the conference costs will be passed on to the tax payers in the borough, Councillor Liz Green, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition said:

“This is not a good time to be clinking glasses in the South of France! I think Kevin Davis should be sorting out the budgets problems in the borough rather than attending this conference.

His free trip to Cannes is nothing more than a jolly for developers and again it raises more questions about the ‘cosy’ relationship between developers and the council.

Kevin Davis told us the Conservative Government’s budget settlement was the worse that he could possibly have expected. Now he is cutting youth services and putting up Council Tax by 2% which breaks the Tory manifesto promise to freeze Council Tax. I don’t see how he can trumpet the conference or defend this trip.“