Sentences with phrase «manchester city mayor»

Better transport is popular, but a proposal for an elected Manchester city mayor was rejected by voters in the referendum of 2012.

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It's part of Labour's proposal to devolve power to metro mayors with control over combined authorities, which already exist in other core cities (Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and could be a key part of the answer in Bristol.

Greater Manchester's newly elected mayor had to deal with a terrorist attack in his city within weeks of his election last month.

Meanwhile Manchester, along with eight other cities, actually declined the opportunity to have a directly elected mayor in a low - turnout referendum in May 2012.

In February 2006, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report calling for elected mayors in Birmingham and Manchester, which was positively received by the government, but not by the two city councils concerned.

In 2012, 10 English cities, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield, many of which will be getting a metro mayor next year, held referenda on whether they wanted to introduce a directly elected city mayor to replace their current leaders.

This is particularly in the case of the great cities of the Midlands and the North — Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle etc — which show no inclination to favour regional devolution, and — with the exception of Liverpool — have rejected directly elected mayors.

The Manchester Evening News headlines the current bookies» odds on who will be the city region's first elected mayor.

On 3 November, Greater Manchester's 10 metropolitan councils and the government reached a «trailblazing agreement» to devolve powers to a combined city region authority, shortly to be headed by an elected mayor.

Turnout was low - just 26.1 % of voters cast a ballot to choose the first Liverpool City Region metro mayor, while 28.93 % turned out for the contest in Greater Manchester.

When George Osborne announced in November 2014 that Greater Manchester was to get its own directly elected «metro mayor», he lauded the potential for dynamic civic leadership to develop the city - region's economy and transport infrastructure.

The mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region are calling for a special convention to boost the northern economy:

As the vanguard city - region underpinning the wider Northern Powerhouse vision of the Cameron governments, the Greater Manchester mayoral elections were a critical litmus test offering insights into the possibility that metro mayors outside London could stimulate local democracy.

Turnout at last year's metro mayor elections in neighbouring city regions (Greater Manchester, 28.6 %; Liverpool City Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCA macity regions (Greater Manchester, 28.6 %; Liverpool City Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCA maCity Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCA mayor.

The same applies to the London mayoral votes and the referenda on whether to have a mayor in major cities like Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield.

«There are big advantages in having an elected mayor to represent your city,» the chancellor declared in Manchester this morning.

The post of the Sheffield city region mayor has been mired in controversy because, unlike similar roles in Manchester and the West Midlands, no devolution and funding deal has yet been agreed to go with the appointment.

Manchester, for example, doesn't have an elected mayor but Richard Leese (Manchester City council leader since 1996) and Howard Bernstein (chief executive of Manchester City council) are incredibly well thought of, and other places with elected mayors have operated less well.

Former Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham is also standing down to be Labour's candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester, while Steve Rotheram - Mr Corbyn's parliamentary aide - is resigning his Liverpool Walton seat in his bid to become mayor of the city.