What party?

The BBC report through gritted teeth that:

"A former Worcestershire council leader has pleaded guilty to stealing tens of thousands of pounds from a charity.

Ex-leader of Redditch Borough Council David Roy Cartwright, 52, admitted stealing at least £24,695 from local homeless charity Step Out Drop In.

He also admitted making false claims for the charity totalling £63,467 between June 1997 and April 2001.

Cartwright, of Donnington Close, Redditch, will return to Hereford Crown Court for sentencing on 27 February.

The Step Out Drop In charity has since collapsed.

The court heard how Cartwright, who served as a councillor on three separate occasions between 1986 and 2007, had made false claims to the borough council, a charitable foundation and a government department."

There are more details but no mention of the political party that David Roy Cartwright served. So I checked and the Redditch Council website reveals what I could have guessed, which is that the Council is Labour run (albeit currently a minority administration). I assume therefore that David Roy Cartwright was a Labour council leader. I thought he might be as if he had been a Conservative then his party would have featured very heavily in the story, if not in the headline.

Once again the BBC protect their own, it's what they do.