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- LEADING Labour member of Brighton and Hove City Council has defected to the Conservatives - leaving the Tories as the largest party.
- Anne Meadows is councillor for Moulsecoomb and Bevendean and chairs the housing committee.
- She was deselected by Labour party members last July.
- Tony Janio, leader of the Conservative group on the city council welcomed the move
- But Labour MP for Kemptown Lloyd Russell-Moyle was heavily critical.
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