Council standards boards should have the power to ban councillors for up to six months without allowances, the Committee on Standards in Public Life has recommended.
In its latest report, the committee called for standards boards to have more teeth in a bid to clamp down on poor conduct or the repeated bad behaviour of councillors.
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