Sentences with phrase «labour leader of the council»

Recently, the Labour Leader of the Council, Cllr Julian Bell, arranged for the director responsible for planning and other senior planning officers to meet Dr Onkar Sahota, Ealing's Labour London Assembly member, on site to discuss Dr Sahota's very contentious planning application.

Dave Green, the Labour leader of the council, said: «I think this election shows that the people of Bradford have rejected Respect.

Not exact matches

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.

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

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.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

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

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

Party leader Nigel Farage had failed to become Thanet South's MP, but his party reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal council.

«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.

[92] Publicly speaking about the 2017 Scottish council elections, Sturgeon has said that the elections were a clear choice between voting for herself and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, citing the stark fall in support of the Scottish Labour Party and their leader Kezia Dugdale over the past several years.

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The leaders of the 10 (mainly Labour) councils that comprise the Greater Manchester combined authority met on Friday to study plans for new council powers negotiated with the chancellor, George Osborne.

Hull's Lib Dem leader quickly held a press conference conceding that Labour had won control of the council long before the final result was announced.

Her message was undermined however by Peter Lamb, the Labour leader of Crawley Borough Council, who said the party was going «backwards» under Mr Corbyn.

But Labour did lose control of one council in Dudley and unlike under most previous opposition leaders, failed to make any overall gains.

From 1980 — 1 relations with local government became increasingly confrontational, as Labour made large gains in local elections, with a new generation of council leaders such as Ken Livingstone in London and David Blunkett in Sheffield seeking to generate employment through their councils.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the result as «a humiliating loss of authority for the government on the eve of the European Council meeting».

He had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives and has held a number of civic posts including chair of Housing, chair of Planning, chair of Recycling and Waste, Cabinet member for the Environment, deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

Labour leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was not a case of «one size fits all».

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.

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.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against -LSB-...]

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

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.

[Labour MP Catherine West] was then the leader of Islington Council and as the Queen could not attend the opening they were invited to Buckingham Palace and she accompanied the whole squad to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen.

Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell has attacked the SNP's plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax, branding aspects of it «scandalous».

The Labour leader urged the prime minister to take heed of warnings from Tory councils, the boss of NHS England and others that social care is facing a financial crisis which needs addressing.

After the clash, a spokesman for the Labour leader said «there has to be a suspicion of social cleansing» about the prime minister's proposals to overhaul or rebuild 100 council estates.

Lambeth Council Leader, Lib Peck, spoke of the pride she takes in her town and the Labour Co-operative run - cCouncil Leader, Lib Peck, spoke of the pride she takes in her town and the Labour Co-operative run - councilcouncil.

Labour leader Ed Miliband described the Government's Housing Benefit policy as «a complete shambles» and said London councils were warning that 82,000 people would lose their homes as a result of the changes.

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Mr Farnell, who regained the position of Labour council leader in 2014 after a gap of 22 years, told the inquiry he was never informed of the scandal during his first stint in office between 1986 and 1992.

[3] However the Labour deputy leader Rob Donnelly took over as leader of the council, replacing Liberal Democrat Brian Gurden who became deputy leader.

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.»

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.

Former Mayor of London Ken Livngstone has apologised and paid libel damages to the former Labour leader of Tower Hamlets Council, Michael Keith.

A generation ago a Labour leader came to Conference to condemn the behaviour of a Labour Council in Liverpool.

Given that Cllr Ian Greenwood, the Labour leader of Bradford Council, is presiding over a secretive overspend of # 4 million on a mirror pool scheme you would think he would have enough to cope with.

The Labour leader was right, for example, to emphasise the need to boost research and development, improve skill levels and invest in transport while his pledge to allow councils to borrow to build more homes would help unlock more of the funding they need to address housing shortages.

Reith is Labour's Deputy Leader of Haringey Council.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

The Conservative leader of the council Peter Callow said the Labour result was «well - earned» and that cuts made by the national government were to blame for the Conservative losses.

Labour's Stephen Morgan MP, Lib Dem Gerald Vernon - Jackson and Tory council leader Donna Jones spoke to political editor Peter Henley during the early stages of the count in Portsmouth Guildhall.

Bithell replaced the retiring Joint Deputy Leader of the Council, Lucinda Yeadon, as the third Labour candidate.

He's been joined by Peter Lamb, the Labour Leader of Crawley Council.

Peter John, Labour's current leader of Southwark Council, described it as «a rejection absolutely of the coalition parties in this borough» and of negative campaigning.

In April 2008 Rahman was elected as Leader of the majority Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council, and therefore became Leader of the Council, replacing Denise Jones.