Complaint against youngest councillor dismissed

Sheffield Liberal Democrats have ended the suspension of the city's youngest councillor from the party after a complaint against him was dismissed.

Willis Marshall was elected to the Woodhouse ward in a by-election in November 2024, aged 19.

At the time of his suspension in May 2025, the University of Sheffield politics and international relations student said he had done nothing wrong. Marshall continued to sit as an independent, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

In a statement, Sheffield Lib Dem chair, councillor Sue Alston, and group leader, councillor Martin Smith, said after investigation of the complaint, the nature of which was never made public, Marshall had been reinstated.

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