Sentences with phrase «labour group leaders»

Labour group leader Len Duvall told Politics.co.uk that Khan was pushing «myths» that the scheme would create new costs for City Hall.

Councillors standing down at the election included Gwen Richardson and Erica Shaw, while former Labour group leader David Potter and the former Conservative council leader from the 1980s and 1990s, Stephen Reid, attempted to return to the council.

Only Tower Hamlets has reinstated EMA and Aim Higher, scrapped nationally by the same people who Labour group leader Councillor Joshua Peck stood shoulder to shoulder with in the vote on Thursday.

The council's Labour group leader Adam Hug blamed «atrocious» housebuilding rates and «insidious» welfare cuts, adding: «The cumulative effect of it is social cleansing.»

Long - serving Council and Labour group leader Stuart Caddy and his deputy Peter Kenyon both lost their seats, with Andy Tatchell becoming group leader.

[1] Following the election the Labour group leader Andy Tatchell was replaced by Julie Cooper.

Labour group leader Jim Grant has just said that the party has got to find a way to reach out to disaffected voters who are turning to Ukip.

I am grateful to several councillors in Bury for exposing the outrageous and offensive comments that Mike Connolly (pictured), the Labour group leader on their council, has made about our Royal family.

Following the election the Labour group leader, George Dunning, became the new leader of the council, after Labour got the support of 2 independents, Mike Findley and Mary Lanigan.

Navin Shah has served as a Harrow Councillor for Kenton East Ward from 1994 - 2014, Leader of Harrow Council from 2004 to 2006, and remained the Harrow Labour Group Leader until June 2008.

Labour group leader, Kevin Keenan, added: «These posts should have been advertised in plenty time to get teachers in post before the new term starts.

Not exact matches

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

On Monday the union's general secretary Robert Reid told a group of Hamilton leaders, including representatives from the Waikato Regional Council, Hamilton City Council and National and Labour MPs, that another bid had gone to the company.

Some leaders of the group told the GNA that they were using the place as their «labour office» until further notice.

Trotskyist groups have been out in the wilderness since Militant was expelled from the Labour party in the 1980s, why wouldn't they support a leader who is comparatively sympathetic to their cause.

Cameron repeatedly called on Corbyn to retract a remark about being «friends» with the terrorist group Hamas — and the Labour leader responded by disassociating himself from the group.

I thank most immensely the women and their groups, market women and men, traders, artisans, workers, active and retired civil servants, students, transporters, commercial motorcyclists, employers of labour, organised private sector, the business community, non-governmental organisations, community based organisations, youth organisations, security agencies, the media, political parties, traditional rulers, community leaders and religious organisations and their leaders.

Within living memory, two leaders of the small Labour group on the council have been convicted on criminal charges — smuggling booze and fags in one case and corruption in the case of his successor.

Published in May 2011 after a series of seminars in London and Oxford, the text contains a foreword from Labour leader Ed Miliband, and was supported by Labour's key pressure groups The Fabian Society, Progress, Compass and the Christian Socialist Movement.

Within living memory, two leaders of the small Labour group on the council have been convicted on criminal charges

«I thought there had been enough of an opening up of debate under Ed [Miliband] that if Jeremy was on the ballot paper we would do quite well,» Jon Lansman, a close adviser of the Labour leader and chair of the pro-Corbyn Momentum group, told the New Statesman recently.

«I'm absolutely ecstatic,» said Andrew Western, the leader of the Labour group on Trafford council.

He became leader of the Labour group, and leader of the council, in 2004 before standing down in 2010 following his election as MEP.

Andrew Murray, who took over from the Labour leader as chair of the anti-war group, accused him of «clearing the way for a vote to send the country to war».

The Labour leader headed to Leyland in Lancashire to talk about Labour's free school meals pledge and to show a group of children at a holiday club how to make a cake.

Labour's deputy leader turns his attention to socialist group that wants members to «intervene» in Labour.

The Labour leader's performance outpolled May among all age groups up to 64 year olds — on nearly all metrics or «entitlements» which viewers saw as important.

Based on the logic above, if the majority of the current PLP split from Labour, that group's leader would automatically gain this support.

The Global Sustainability Institute and the Green New Deal Group were among the think - tanks and pressure groups which signed a letter to the Guardian warning the Labour leader not to «play the next election safe».

The 19 leading figures from groups such as Fabian Society, Compass, Policy Network and Progress expressed unease that Labour's leader may not secure a mandate for the kind of reforms they believe Britain needs.

While the Fabians have become an immensely powerful institution, wealthy, stable, competitive, king maker to Labour leaders and Prime Ministers, the foundation stone of one of our finest universities, the Bow Group has increasingly become an also - ran, first in wealth and stability, and then inevitably in thought and influence.

Of this group, only 17 % thought Labour prime minister Gordon Brown had come across best overall in the debates, and 61 % thought he had performed worst; 31 % thought David Cameron (then the leader of the opposition) had won, while 34 % thought him the loser.

Giving evidence at the home affairs select committee on Monday, the Labour leader said that he had used the phrase to describe the militant groups during a meeting in parliament in 2009.

He was the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in the Borough between 2006 and the local elections earlier this year, when Labour regained power at Camden Town Hall, at which point he replaced Andrew Marshall as Conservative group leader.

McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29 - member group of Labour councillors.

Labour leader's pledge to hold referendum only if sovereignty is ceded to EU will encourage investment, say business groups

As a member of Westminster Council and deputy Leader of the Labour Group, he was a leader of the campaign to expose the «Homes for Votes» scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Dame Shirley Porter and colleLeader of the Labour Group, he was a leader of the campaign to expose the «Homes for Votes» scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Dame Shirley Porter and colleleader of the campaign to expose the «Homes for Votes» scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Dame Shirley Porter and colleLeader Dame Shirley Porter and colleagues.

Trafford MBC's former Conservative leader Sean Anstee has said campaigning by hundreds of activists from outside the area was an important «contributory factor» in his party losing overall control of the council - but said it is not «cut and dry» Labour will take control after becoming the largest group.

The host, Mrs Regina Obasa who is also the founder of the organization is known an administrator per excellence, a philanthropist, counsellor and pragmatic labour leader who through her humanitarian group has counselled and empowered over 12,000 people since 2006.

Today it was confirmed that the group will be formally launched on Saturday with speakers including Labour's Kate Hoey and UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

Hodges says the Labour leader should take decisive action to tackle the problem, including winding up the left - wing Momentum group.

The Labour leader was quizzed by the BBC as the so - called Islamic State group has said it carried out the multiple attacks in Paris.

There are those who voted for Jeremy Corbyn to be party leader, those who voted against him and — by far the biggest group — Labour voters across Britain who played no part in his election.»

In March, Stella Creasy accused Momentum of trying to deselect Labour MPs not loyal to the leader - something the group has denied.

Soros, in London to publicise a new book — The Tragedy of the European Union — made his remarks after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, won plaudits from business groups for playing down the chances of an in - out referendum should the opposition win next year's general election.

With 22,236 votes, the former leader of Tower Hamlets» Labour Group, Christine Shawcroft, was also elected to the NEC.

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

But other trade unions were initially concerned at what they regarded as a Unite stitch - up — and Jon Lansman, leader of the pro-Corbyn grassroots campaign group Momentum, put himself forward, complaining about «machine» politics inside Labour.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.