Guernsey Press

Bridging the divide

THE first thing this States of Deliberation did, back in 2016, was to cast 20 votes for Gavin St Pier and 20 votes for Peter Ferbrache in the election for a president of the new-fangled Policy & Resources Committee. It then took several rounds of tense voting to break that tied result, with Deputy St Pier eventually winning by 21 votes to 19. The whole episode seemed to cast the die for one of the most fractious and factionalised Assemblies of recent times.