Kevin Guy, the Liberal Democrat leader of Bath and North East Somerset council, has plunged himself into fresh controversy after registering hospitality as deputy mayor of the West of England Combined Authority days after his term had ended in May.
Guy, 46, was paid £19,300 to act as the authority’s deputy mayor for the year to last May, a statutory appointment that former Labour mayor Dan Norris had refused to make during his time in office that was cut short by his arrest in April 2025.
Cllr Guy recorded two engagements in his register of gifts and hospitality on the Weca website. One was for attending Bath Rugby vs the Newcastle Red Bulls on May 16 in the owner’s box, courtesy of chief executive Tarquin Macdonald, a gift valued at £500 for two.
However, an analysis of his commitments during that time – excluding those he would have attended anyway as the £55,827-a-year Banes leader – showed that would not have spent more than 20 hours
