sentences:  He entered local politics, and in the 1990s he was leader of Lancaster City Council.He was leader of the council at the time of the Blobbygate scandal and subsequently was deseated by the Greens at the 1999 council elections, although a later report by the district auditor cleared councillors of maladministration.His former wife Ruth Henig, is a retired historian and was also a long-serving member of Lancashire County Council.