BLACKPOOL council leader Roy Fisher has announced his new cabinet. And there are no Tory members involved, following their decision not to accept any portfolios.

Coun Fisher revealed the seven-strong executive committee -- the key council committee -- last week.

It will carry out all the authority's functions that are outside the responsibility of any other council committee -- most of the everyday council business. And each cabinet member is a portfolio holder with their own area of council responsibility.

Liberal Democrat leader Robert Wynne is the sole non-Labour cabinet member, with the portfolio for partnerships, business and companies.

Blackpool Tories declined an offer from Coun Fisher to be part of the new cabinet, fearing that it would leave no real opposition to the Labour administration.

Coun Fisher takes the role of cabinet leader.

He will be able to carry out any executive function and have particular responsibility for corporate issues, budgetary and other financial matters, corporate governance and crime and disorder.

The deputy leader is Eddie Collett. He can carry out any executive function if Coun Fisher is absent or unable to act, or if the position of leader is vacant.

He also has responsibility for the area of lifelong learning and citizenship.

Other members are Roy Lewis, who is the portfolio holder for regeneration and tourism, Dave Ferris, responsible for health and wellbeing and leisure, Fred Jackson, responsible for urban environment, and David Owen, who holds the portfolio for culture, art and parks.

As part of Blackpool's new constitution, the cabinet replaces the old executive committee, which had representatives of the Labour, Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties.

But Tory leader Peter Callow said he had no regrets about declining the offer to be part of the new executive committee.

"Really there is now a Labour-Liberal Democrat administration at Blackpool Town Hall. Roy Fisher has chosen Robert Wynne as one of his lieutenants, so the Liberal Democrats are an integral part of this administration.

"At the very time that Charles Kennedy was tearing up his pact with Labour, the Liberal Democrats here -- in the shape of Robert Wynne -- couldn't wait to jump into bed with Labour.

"Now there's only one opposition to the Lib-Lab pact and that's the Tories," he said.