BBC News
James Vincent
23 May 2025
On Friday, 37 Reform councillors will take their seats in the Doncaster Council chamber for the first time. Their new majority comes at a pivotal time for the city, where Labour mayor Ros Jones was re-elected on a ticket of promises to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
[Ros] Jones is going to need to bring other parties on board to an extent because although she can make a lot of decisions alone, there are some which need the approval of full council.
The authority's budget, the council's Corporate Plan, which sets out priorities, and any decision on the airport, which closed in 2022 when landowners and operators Peel Group said it was no longer viable, are chief among them.
That is where things will get interesting.
The future of the airport might be the biggest decision Doncaster has to make for a generation.
Read on: Reform UK, power struggle and Doncaster's airport battle - BBC News
