Sentences with phrase «labour local councillors»

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

Not exact matches

Local Councillors have expressed criticism of the Labour council who made the deal with the church in exchange for turning their old building into a new school.

One highly - rated local Labour councillor who could have been a strong contender is Damien Egan.

She joined the Labour party, became a press officer at its Transport House HQ, was elected as a local councillor and set her sights on being an MP.

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

The real problem for Labour is the erosion over a number of years of its local government base, with by far the largest number of UK councillors being Tories.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

It wasn't a pop quiz of local Labour councillors.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

There will be further consideration of selection of councillors by the local government committee in consultation with the Scottish Association of Labour Ccouncillors by the local government committee in consultation with the Scottish Association of Labour CouncillorsCouncillors.

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

Two former party rebels, former SNP local councillor Bev Gauld and former Labour councillor Danny Meikle, contest the election as independent candidates.

Last week's local elections have left Labour in a terrible state, losing hundreds of councillors to the rampant Tories and missing out on mayoralties in the South West, the West Midlands and, most improbably, the Tees Valley.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

His seat is being contested for Labour by local councillor Lesley Hinds.

Cobb, who intended to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, has received the backing of his local Labour MP Kate Hoey who claims her local councillors have a «vendetta» against him.

Winning lots of new councillors will revitalise local constituency parties up and down the country and help rebuild a Labour campaign machine that rusted and fell apart over thirteen years in power.

However, the decision to stagger the changes reflects a growing realisation by ministers that Labour could exploit the changes to attack Tory and Lib Dem councillors in local elections next year.

«Council tax bills set to rise by more than 100 % under Labour Main Harry Phibbs: In 2008 are surgeries still an effective use of local councillors?»

The local Labour Party members should be ashamed of what their councillors get up to - smears and innuendo, none of it ever stands up.

Today, Labour Councils across the UK, and the Labour administration in Wales, are just so abjectly carrying out the devastating new wave of terminally damaging budget cuts, that the «Corbynite Left agenda» is being actively discredited, on the ground, long before we actually have any influence on the agenda of local councillors at all.

[102] Labour also gained 324 councillors in the 2014 local elections.

I still believe we will be hammered in the forthcoming local elections, which makes me sorry for the hard working diligent councillor being affected not by local issues but by a simmering hatred the press and Labour have been keenly espousing since the coalition deal, and a hatred for the Lib Dems for being the face of the cuts.

Former Labour MP who worked for two decades for his local area and was known as the «people's councillor»

He also formed an alliance known as «The Coastals» (because of the seats they held) of Independents and the sole Green Party councillor, giving East Devon's ruling Conservatives the first true opposition they had faced for decades (the local Liberal Democrat and Labour parties being negligible).

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

I want to see the door left open for those councillors who have resigned the party whip to return so that whoever is elected can be sure that there is a strong Labour group that will work with the Mayor to ensure the needs of Tower Hamlets comes first and we reunite the local party once the dust has settled.»

No more than Labour is because a local councillor in their party happens to be.

I was a trauma and emergency doctor in London with a number of years overseas doing humanitarian aid work and I'd only become a local Labour councillor in May of 2014.

Labour lost hundreds of councillors in last week's local elections - but look deep into the voting figures and things look even worse

Labour is braced to lose as many as 500 councillors in the forthcoming local election, as even Tony Blair concedes the party are facing a «tough time» mid-term.

The Ipsos Mori polling comes hours after a polling exprt warned that Labour is set to lose scores of councillors in its worst local election result while in opposition in decades.

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

Labour has already suspended eight local Labour councillors for supporting Mr Rahman, so why not Mr Livingstone?

[3] In September 2007, the Easington Constituency Labour Party (CLP) selected local councillor and CLP secretary Grahame Morris as their candidate for the 2010 election.

«I am in no doubt that Leigh needs a Labour candidate with strong local credentials and that the best person to succeed me is Councillor Joanne Platt.

In February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.

A rift has widened within the Labour party over the selection of its local councillors, after the Momentum chief Jon Lansman called for a rerun of every candidate selection in London, claiming that sitting Jeremy Corbyn supporters were excluded from shortlists «for no good reason».

She was thoroughly Labour, first as an activist, then as a local councillor and MP and finally as a Labour peer.

Aside from the boost to Tony's campaign this is also 5 local Labour councillors admitting that the council is better run under the Tories, lets hope Andy Coulson makes the most of this.

The Labour decline was also accompanied by a spike in the number of minor party councillors, mostly concentrated in specific local authorities.

Ready for the local elections with the leader of Labour's councillors sitting in the shadow cabinet and the Leaders of Labour in Wales and Scotland sitting on the NEC.

These defecting councillors are believed to be Sikhs and there's probably some local reason why theyve fallen out with labour.

, appeared to be using his parliamentary expenses to employ a local Labour councillor as his «Constituency Political Secretary».

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.