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  "margaret": {
    "name": "Margaret Holroyd",
    "role": "Director of Finance",
    "shortRole": "Section 151 Officer",
    "initials": "MH",
    "color": "#3a4a5c",
    "lean": "Risk-averse. Cites the Prudential Code in conversation. Has worked here since 1998.",
    "remembers": "Every time you've overridden her advice",
    "startRelationship": 0,
    "resignThreshold": -25,
    "type": "officer"
  },
  "nigel": {
    "name": "Nigel Aspinall",
    "role": "Chief Executive",
    "shortRole": "Head of Paid Service",
    "initials": "NA",
    "color": "#4a3a5c",
    "lean": "Smooth career officer. Ambitious for the council's national reputation. Got an OBE last year.",
    "remembers": "Whether you've backed his pet regen projects",
    "startRelationship": -5,
    "resignThreshold": -25,
    "type": "officer"
  },
  "aman": {
    "name": "Dr Aman Begum",
    "role": "Director of Children's Services",
    "shortRole": "DCS",
    "initials": "AB",
    "color": "#5c3a4a",
    "lean": "Idealistic, post-Ofsted Inadequate appointment in 2020. Quotes the safeguarding peer review.",
    "remembers": "How often you've protected SEND/safeguarding budgets",
    "startRelationship": 5,
    "resignThreshold": -20,
    "type": "officer"
  },
  "dev": {
    "name": "Cllr Dev Khatri",
    "role": "Leader of the Labour Group",
    "shortRole": "Labour Group Leader (was Deputy Council Leader until May 7)",
    "initials": "DK",
    "color": "#b85c5c",
    "lean": "Held on by 47 votes in Marsden Vale. Watches every meeting like he's writing your obituary.",
    "remembers": "Every U-turn you make",
    "startRelationship": -20,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "councillor"
  },
  "wayne": {
    "name": "Cllr Wayne Garrity",
    "role": "Reform Chief Whip",
    "shortRole": "Your Chief Whip",
    "initials": "WG",
    "color": "#3a5c4a",
    "lean": "Ex-Labour, fourth-time councillor (jumped ship in 2024). The only Reform councillor with any local government experience. Competent and disconcertingly calm.",
    "remembers": "Whether you've taken his advice or your group's whims",
    "startRelationship": 10,
    "resignThreshold": -15,
    "type": "councillor"
  },
  "helena": {
    "name": "Dr Helena Voss-Mitchell",
    "role": "Leader of the Green Group",
    "shortRole": "Green Leader",
    "initials": "HV",
    "color": "#3a5c3a",
    "lean": "Articulate ex-academic. Reads the constitution before meetings. Runs rings around your less-experienced backbenchers in chamber.",
    "remembers": "Every constitutional irregularity she's spotted",
    "startRelationship": -10,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "councillor"
  },
  "janet": {
    "name": "Cllr Janet Beaumont",
    "role": "Leader of the Conservative Group",
    "shortRole": "Con Leader",
    "initials": "JB",
    "color": "#5c5c3a",
    "lean": "Twenty-year veteran. Now leads a group of four. Stately disappointment is her default register.",
    "remembers": "Reform's manifesto pledges and your every divergence from them",
    "startRelationship": -5,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "councillor"
  },
  "sarah": {
    "name": "Sarah Whitlock",
    "role": "Reporter, Crowthorpe Examiner",
    "shortRole": "Local Democracy Reporter",
    "initials": "SW",
    "color": "#5c4a3a",
    "lean": "Persistent, excellent FOI game. Knows the difference between a Cabinet Member and a Portfolio Holder, which makes her a national rarity.",
    "remembers": "Every time you've stonewalled her or briefed against an officer",
    "startRelationship": 0,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "press"
  },
  "halloway": {
    "name": "Cllr Robin Halloway",
    "role": "Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group",
    "shortRole": "LibDem Leader",
    "initials": "RH",
    "color": "#c79a3a",
    "lean": "Polite, technocratic, fond of detailed amendments and scrutiny work. Holds the C&S decision in his pocket at all times.",
    "remembers": "Every commitment you've made to him in private",
    "startRelationship": 0,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "councillor"
  },
  "mp": {
    "name": "The Hon. Olivia Tregowan-Spence MP",
    "role": "MP for Crowthorpe & Holme Valley",
    "shortRole": "Labour MP",
    "initials": "OT",
    "color": "#5c3a3a",
    "lean": "Labour. Two-term incumbent who held on in 2024 by 412 votes. Plays to the gallery. Recently appointed to the Public Accounts Committee, which she mentions a lot.",
    "remembers": "Nothing — she doesn't pay attention to you",
    "startRelationship": -15,
    "resignThreshold": null,
    "type": "external"
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