An MP has asked a council boss to review a decision to cut bus services.

Norman Baker is calling on East Sussex County Council chief executive Becky Shaw to declare invalid the decision by the authority’s Conservative cabinet to vote through cuts to council-subsidised bus routes in a bid to save almost £1.9 million.

The Lewes MP has also written to communities secretary Eric Pickles to ask him to rule on the lawfulness of the cabinet’s decision to vote through cuts which were defeated in a full council meeting just weeks before.

Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors have come together to require the cabinet decision to be subject to be “called-in”.

The move will mean no bus cuts can be brought in while the call-in process is ongoing.

Mr Baker described the decision made on Tuesday as a “constitutional outrage” and “wrong economically, environmentally, socially and constitutionally”.