Sentences with phrase «conservatives ran the council»

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with a 4 - seat majority over the Labour party.

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with 28 seats, [2] compared to 9 for Labour, 8 Liberal Democrats and 5 independents.

Not exact matches

Most metropolitan councils in fact have been essentially conservative, white - dominated, establishment - run organizations that engaged in nothing more radical than sponsorship of the training of clergy in hospital visitation or publication of a hesitant statement on some controversial issue.

His former running mate, ex-NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene (whom Edwards defeated on Sept. 14), Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo (whom Lazio defeated for Row D in the primary before deciding to drop out of the general election), former Rep. Tom Reynolds, Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy (Paladino's earliest and most staunch support), Nancy Naples (former Erie County comptroller and chair of Paladino's campaign), state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, state Conservative Chairman Mike Long (although not today).

This council operated in a similar vein under the «progressive partnership» the Conservative and Liberal democrat coalition that ran the city before Sir Albert Bore wrestled control of the authority from Mike Whitby and Paul Tilsley in 2012.

City Council candidate Mujib Rahman, a Democrat running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines, speaks to reporters in Jackson Heights.

The Grenfell disaster found the Conservative - run council in Kensington and Chelsea wanting.

Conservative - run Richmond Council is holding a referendum on the expansion of Heathrow Airport.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

MPs are today debating Conservative proposals to give councils far more power over how their local communities are run.

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in Hastings?

There is increased speculation that Kenneth Mitchell, Council Member from Staten Island District 49, chagrined over his loss to Debi Rose in the Democratic primary, is readying a run in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

Staffordshire County Council is Labour run but is an important Conservative target.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

The south of this seat is comparatively Conservative — it includes run down areas like West Kensington and council estates like Lytton, but at a local level the Conservatives swept dramatically to power in 2006.

The constituency and Newham Council have been run for too long by Labour and I am looking forward to working with the Conservatives here to oust them.»

Nathaniel Horowitz, 27, is running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence party lines against incumbent Democrat Charlie Landi, 77, who arrived on the Common Council in 1988 and, with a few breaks, has been there ever since.

Despite the losses, the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition continued to run the Council with a reduced majority of 6 seats.

The move was a particularly damaging one for the Conservatives, who had pointed to the Labour - run council's support for the agenda as proof that the Big Society could work across party lines.

The 2015 Mt Vernon Democratic primary, can not come quick enough for some, with six Mayoral candidates — Mayor Davis, Clinton Young, Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Maureen Walker & Richard Thomas (Deborah Reynolds will appear on the Conservative line in the General Election but not appear in the Democratic primary) and seven city council candidates — Andre Wallace, Delia Farquharson, Diane Munro, Lisa Copeland, John Boykin, Janice Duarte (who is a Democrat running on the Independence Party line) and Cheryl Dennis who is running as an Independent (No party), all vying for two city council seats available.

As a result the Conservatives now run more councils in the North West and Yorkshire than Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined.

One of the few upsets of the night came in Ward 3, where 27 - year - old Nate Horowitz, running on the Independence and Conservative lines, beat incumbent Democrat Charlie Landi, who has served all but four of the past 24 years on the Common Council.

Ms Ward has a 1,151 majority over the Liberal Democrats (who run the council with an elected mayor), but the Conservatives are in a very strong third place - less than 1,000 votes behind the Lib Dems with 29.6 % of the vote.

With this in mind the Conservative party is running eight council candidates, from across Northern Ireland, in the local elections.

If you want to have residents who are satisfied with their council and think they get value for money, get Conservatives to run it for you.

The origins and full details of the record DUP donation, were arranged through a former vice-chair of the Scottish Conservatives, Richard Cook, who runs a small Glasgow - based organisation called the Constitutional Research Council (CRC).

Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority.

Congratulations to Conservative - run East Staffordshire Borough Council who have announced a 1 % cut in their Council Tax bill.

The Conservatives and Independent Alliance have agreed a coalition deal to run Scottish Borders Council.

The council has been run for the past four years by a coalition of 30 Conservatives, who won the largest number of seats in 2010, and seven Liberal Democrats.

Conservative - run Kent County Council approved the new school after the Shillings collected 2,620 signatures to a petition.

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».

The Conservatives will continue running Portsmouth City Council, as a minority administration.

The Conservatives will continue to run Portsmouth City Council, following a decision at a full council mCouncil, following a decision at a full council mcouncil meeting.

If Bob Holden, a CUNY professor and president of the Juniper Civic Association in Middle Village — a registered Democrat who ran on the Republican, Conservative and Reform lines in the general election — ends up defeating incumbent Queens Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley after all the paper ballots are counted, then the Council will have 11 new members.

David is a local councillor and is in fact currently a one - man Conservative bloc in a rainbow coalition running Inverclyde council.

[10] However following the election the Liberal Democrats refused to make any agreement with Labour, thus allowing the Conservatives to take control as the largest party from Labour who had run the council since 1996.

The biggest prize for them is expected to be Birmingham, the largest council in the UK, which is currently run by a Conservative / Lib Dem coalition.

The Conservatives on Derby City Council will meet today to decide whether to bid to run the authority.

The Conservatives seem closer to potential partners the Lib Dems on several issues like the Assembly Rooms, increased neighbourhood working, and the style in which the council should be run.

One of the big themes of the next two years will be attempts by the Conservative leadership in London to encourage local councils run by the party to tap into the best and most innovative policies being pioneered by other Tory councils.

The same is true for Watford where the Mayor and Council is run by Lib Dems but the Constitency is a Labour Conservative knife edge.

It will also be interesting to see if the Lib Dems low ebb allows the Conservatives to achieve representation on Lib Dem - run Cambridge City Council where there are currently no Conservative councillors.

Five of these councils are controlled by the Labour party, three are Conservative - run and two have no overall control but Labour have the largest number of councillors.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Conservative groups like The Heartland Institute and American Legislative Exchange Council, along with Students First, the pro-school choice advocacy group run by former Washington, D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, have advocated for trigger laws.

Conservative Reading East MP Rob Wilson has blamed the Labour - run council as it runs 26 of the 35 primary schools in the Berkshire town.

Jeremy Corbyn kicked off by challenging Theresa May to say if the collapse of Tory - run Northamptonshire County Council was a result of Conservative «incompetence» locally or nationally.

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».