Sentences with phrase «labour ran the council»

What would happen is all 130 Labour run councils refused to set «legal» budgets?

The Focus E15 Mothers believe they were initially treated with contempt by their local Labour run council and that direct action was their only option.

But what if the local Labour run council is ideologically opposed to Free Schools?

He then has the gall to attack the Labour run Council for making cuts in services, when as Deputy Prime Minister, he is in a position to ensure that the cuts are not inflicted disproportionally on poorer parts of the country.

Not exact matches

The Tooting MP tells me that in 2013, in the run - up to the European and councils elections, Labour spoke to a million people in London.

The Labour - run council applied for the injunction after a small camp of around ten tents sprung up in a local park back in April.

Light years away from Labour's manifesto and the Corbynite circle running the show, households have been burdened with council tax debts as a result of Tory cuts to council tax benefit.

In the areas of Labour - run councils in England, the lack of viable opposition made the party complacent and lazy.

I wonder how many Labour - run authorities are places where people would spontaneously say that their council was doing a good job, let alone attribute this to the Labour Party?

The nearby constituency of Southampton is run by a Labour council.

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Birmingham City Council has traditionally been dominated by Labour, who ran the council between 1984 anCouncil has traditionally been dominated by Labour, who ran the council between 1984 ancouncil between 1984 and 2004.

He made supportive comments around the living wage, and challenged Labour - run councils to implement it.

And this is happening across London, there have been similar accusations of social cleansing by Labour - run councils in Lambeth, Greenwich and elsewhere.

The Focus E15 campaign has been on the front line of this battle for the past two years and while we congratulate Mr Corbyn on his new position, until he challenges the actions of Labour - run councils as well as government policy, we remain sceptical.

The Nottingham Post reports that Stephen Barker, the director of communications at Labour - run Nottingham City Council to take voluntary redundancy.

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 worst - affected council area in England is Labour - run Liverpool, where 17,582 households claiming council tax support have so - called «attachments» to benefits.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

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.»

The Labour council in Sheffield is to reverse # 2m of spending cuts made by the Liberal Democrats who ran the authority until May's elections.

The Labour candidate and favourite is Jim McMahon (below), a trucker's son who now runs Oldham Council.

Labour had been running a minority administration since 2014 and the council has been hung for many years.

Labour movements often deal with issues like this, for example, an industrial dispute that covers a workplace chapel, of a trade section, of a trade union, which is affiliated to at least one Trades Hall Council, both the union and TUC being (factionalised) affiliates to a political party, which holds government, which runs the chapel section of the workplace in the first place.

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.

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.

According to the British Election Study at Essex University, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, had the 2010 election been run on AV, the results would have been — Tories — 283 (down 22) Labour — 248 (down 10) Lib Dems — 89 (up 32)

Before the election the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties had run the council together for the previous 7 years.

Following the election the Labour and Liberal Democrat administration continued to run the council with 15 seats each and 30 of the 60 councillors.

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

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.

Cardiff Central MP Jenny Willott also accused Ed Miliband of talking down a Cardiff City Deal, after talks were initiated by the Coalition Government following months of inaction by the Labour - run Cardiff Council.

Many councils in «no overall control» are turning out to be Labour - run administrations - in what could turn out to be a gamble for Ed Miliband's party.

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.

Jon Trickett, Graham Stringer, Louise Ellman, George Mudie, Clive Betts, Bob Laxton, James Plaskitt, Peter Soulsby, Alan Whitehead, and Ken Livingstone are all examples of Labour MPs who previously ran major councils but never did much (or anything) as ministers.

Pickles led Bradford City Council in the 1980s, as a revolutionary Thatcherite who tried to show local government could be run very differently from the policies of the Labour Left.

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.

You might remember that this is the council that tripped up both Ed Miliband and Grant Shapps this week — the Labour leader was caught out for failing to recognise the name of his party's leader in Swindon (and for not knowing that Labour didn't actually run the council there).

Labour will keep control of the council it has run for 80 years, but Ukip is now the official opposition.

The Labour leader ran into trouble when he was asked on BBC Wiltshire for his views of Jim Grant by the presenter Ben Prater who stopped short of mentioning that he is the leader of the Labour group on Swindon Borough Council.

One major change was that Council Leader George Dunning and many other Labour councillors were deselected and ran as Independent.

Typically, such new management will be resisted by the unions, by the local council (especially if Labour - run), by many of the existing governors, and the staff usually including the incumbent head.

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

[5] The Labour party said they were the only party that had the experience to run the council and pledged to remove charges for pensioners for pest control.

Labour were running the council on a minority basis before this election after a decade - long spell when no one party has had an overall majority.

[4] However the council was run by the Labour party who governed with an agreement with the Liberal Democrats.

[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 Greens have made overall gains, including taking two seats off Labour in Sheffield, where the Labour - run council has been engulfed in a row over the felling of thousands of trees.

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.