After losing two seats in today’s local elections, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats Group & Group Spokesperson for the Strategy and Resources Policy Committee, Shaffaq Mohammed, is understandably upset with the results.

He said: “Clearly it is disappointing that we’ve lost two seats. The council still remains under no overall control so we are still the second largest group but we’d have liked to hold all seats.

“This election was in the backdrop of the General Election warm up. Leaflets were sent out to vote for Labour to send the Tories a message when there were no Tories to beat and unfortunately, we’ve been on the wrong end of that result.”

When asked about how the results in Barnsley and Sheffield could reflect the result of the impending General Election, Mr Mohammed expressed that it is not looking good for the Conservative Party.

He said: “It’s not going to be great for the Tories. There are no more Tories left in Sheffield. They only had one seat and now that’s gone.”

Mr Mohammed went on to assure locals that there will be no major changes to how Sheffield City Council will be run. He said: “It’s most likely to be as it was. There’s unlikely to be much change. Labour don’t have an overall control. The Greens are exactly as they were. We are down two but I don’t think that changes much in terms of committee seats so we’ll see what happens.”