Reform leaders at County Hall announced this week that proposals to sell the council-owned homes to private care provider Stow Healthcare had been withdrawn.

Senior councillors had said they had decided not to press ahead with the sale, which had been agreed in principle by the former Conservative administration, because it was not in the best interests of the people who live in the homes - or for the Norfolk taxpayers.

Clive Lewis, Norwich South MP (Image: Newsquest)

It has prompted Labour MPs Clive Lewis (Norwich South) and Alice Macdonald (Norwich North) to call for senior councillors to rule out the sale of the residential homes to another private care company.

Mr Lewis said: "Stopping the sale is only the first step. These 20 care homes........

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