Tory chiefs on Medway Council have been accused of acting like Zimbabwe's embattled dictator Robert Mugabe.

It followed a failed bid by opposition parties to claim greater powers to scrutinise council decisions, a decision damned as "undemocratic."

Liberal Democrats and Labour councillors had wanted to chair some of Medway Council’s scrutiny committees.

The role of these committees is to hold all departments including social services and finance to account.

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