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Can a Town Council suspend a councilllor if it considers the conduct is so serious that it warrants suspension

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No, neither individual councillors nor a council as a whole has any power to suspend a councillor.
The substantial sanction is the criminal law, where applicable. Otherwise, the best that can be done is to raise a complaint through the local monitoring officer (usually the senior legal officer of the district council) whose strongest sanction is name and shame.
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