Sentences with phrase «manchester mayoral election»

After multiple resignations in the Shadow Cabinet, she was promoted to Shadow Health Secretary, and further promoted to Shadow Home Secretary after Andy Burnham left to contest the Manchester Mayoral election.

Find out more about the Manchester mayoral election with this guide from our sister paper the Manchester Evening News.

Andy Burnham with his daughters, after casting his vote in the Greater Manchester mayoral election.

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.

As it stands, turnout for mayoral elections in England has not been over 50 % of the electorate — which does not bode well for the forthcoming Greater Manchester mayoral elections to be held in May 2017.

Not exact matches

Andy Burnham has been announced as the Labour candidate for Greater Manchester's first mayoral election.

On 5 May 2016, a spokesperson for Burnham confirmed that he had been approached by party officials in Greater Manchester, asking him to consider resigning from the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn in order to run in the upcoming mayoral election in 2017.

They seized county executive offices in Westchester and Nassau Counties, N.Y., and carried bellwether mayoral elections in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Manchester, N.H., all races that appeared to favor Republicans only months ago.

He'll chair the Greater Manchester Combined Authority until the official mayoral elections in 2017.

Next month's mayoral elections will create powerful regional representatives in six key areas from Cambridge to Greater Manchester.

[5] The elections took place alongside by - elections for the House of Commons in Cardiff South and Penarth, Corby and Manchester Central, and a mayoral election in Bristol.