Sentences with phrase «as a councillor for»

He will now face another party disciplinary process that will also consider his position as a councillor for the party.

Since then Andrew has served the local area as a Councillor for some years.

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.

In 2002 he was elected as Councillor for Westbury - on - Trym on Bristol City Council, a position he held for 8 years.

«For the last 30 years, I have represented the good people of Bristol South, first as a councillor for Windmill Hill and then as the MP for Bristol South.

^ Mike Grocott was re-elected as the councillor for the Western Springs ward after he had previously left the Liberal Democrats to become an Independent.

Kelly Tolhurst hopes to keep the seat for the Conservatives and she will undoubtedly be hoping that her role as a councillor for Rochester West on Medway Council will help to boost her status.

In 2009, Wilson - Raybould followed her father into First Nations politics as a councillor for the We Wai Kai Nation and regional chief for the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations — the only woman among the regional chiefs.

He worked as a councillor for the London Borough of Harrow from 1990 to 2002.

Not exact matches

In Fort McMurray - Wood Buffalo, four - term MLA Guy Boutilier, who crossed the floor to the Wildrose in 2010 after sitting for 12 years as a Progressive Conservative MLA, was unseated by municipal councillor Mike Allen.

Elected three times as an Edmonton City Councillor, Amarjeet Sohi became the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Mill Woods on October 19th 2015 and was named Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.

As a City Councillor, Rob was a leading advocate for public transit and affordable housing.

Before being elected to the Alberta Legislature, Mason served as the City of Edmonton's Councillor for Ward 3.

Conference delegates also acclaimed Village of Breton Councillor Darren Aldous as their President for a second - term.

As a local councillor he won a reputation for brave and steadfast decency.

As the national marriage equality postal survey entered its final week, the leading organisation behind the «no» campaign, the Australian Christian Lobby's NSW director wrote to councillors asking them to re-evaluate the use of public money for LGBTI groups.

Mrs Amadi, who describes herself as a legal adviser, pastor and author, has been a councillor for the Edgware ward since 2014.

However, his bid was unsuccessful as councillors voted overwhelmingly to approve more than $ 67,000 in funding for 13 LGBTI programs for the upcoming year.

David has also represented the vegetable industry in positions including Vegetable Councillor for the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association, on industry negotiating committees and as a member of the Tasmanian Vegetable Centre Advisory Committee where he currently advises the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research.

In a statement issued by the State's Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government also reiterated the call for a peaceful and orderly conduct by the electorates on Saturday as the State holds elections that will usher in new Chairmen and Councillors in the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) across the State.

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.

A Labour councillor for New Cross ward since 2014, she came third in the race to be Labour's candidate for Lewisham mayor after running as the only BME and only female candidate.

Wragg, a chum of Pursglove's, did not have a similar enlightenment, though his time as a councillor gave him a taste for elected office.

«Most of the Muslim voters I've talked to will vote for Sadiq, but they haven't warmed to him as a person,» one inner London Labour councillor who has been pounding the streets for him tells me.

After University he was elected Councillor in Islington, North London, and in 1997 he won the constituency of Enfield Southgate, for which he served as MP for eight years.

The Deputy has in theory been open to councillors as the other elected members and that is being made easier in practice by a 15 % (60 nominations) threshold for councillors.

She was elected as a Labour councillor on Trafford Council in 1995 on which Keeley served as a member for Priory ward until 2004.

There's a key challenge for local councillors here, as well.

He first worked as a medical lab scientific officer in the Sunderland Group of hospitals, but has been involved with politics since 1987 when he became a District Councillor for Easington.

A former Labour councillor in Lambeth, Hussain - who shares his name with the Labour MP for Bradford East - is known by colleagues as a streetwise and good - humoured operator.

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.

Defeated Labour councillor Adam Langleben called for Jeremy Corbyn to apologise to Jewish activists, adding: «We as Jewish Labour activists were told we were endorsing anti-semitism.»

Clearly, as a former Labour councillor in Edinburgh, and president of the then Labour - dominated Convention, he has a nostalgia for the past.

During her time as a local Councillor, she held positions as Chair of Licensing and Executive Member for Schools.

Mike Whitehead, an East Riding councillor standing for selection as MP for Hull West and Hessle, said he was «disgusted» with the behaviour of the ruling Tory group in East Yorkshire, and the «wilful refusal» of the national Conservative Party to intervene.

Importantly, the Localism Bill does not just liberate councils, but also individual councillors in their role as advocates for their local communities.

Constituents increasingly expect their MP to sort out problems for them which until relatively recently would have been taken to councillors (as you say in the OP).

As for the Lib Dems, he mentions a councillor in Weymouth accused of serious wrong - doing.

Green councillors will be elected for the first time in Essex, Cornwall and Surrey, the party leader has claimed as she predicted a rise in numbers overall in the May 2 local elections across English shire counties.

This is good news for Manchester, as the only Conservative councillor on the council they will offer a much - needed alternative voice.

Khan was chair of the Civil Liberties group Liberty for three years and served as a local councillor in Wandsworth.

Parmjit Dhanda, Member of Parliament for Gloucester from 2001 to 2010, and local councillor Suzanne Paddison, received several nominations each as additional nominations for BAME and women candidates, but are not seen as front runners.

Mr Yousaf has called for Mr Dempster to resign as a councillor, and to be expelled from Scottish Labour.

The results of the survey of 580 councillors in England and Wales for BBC One's Sunday Politics programme came as Liberal Democrats gathered in Glasgow for the party's annual conference.

Susan Gaszczak, a Bedfordshire councillor between 2005 and 2009, says she was harassed by Rennard in 2007 when she attended an event for future female MPs as a parliamentary candidate in Peterborough.

Labour activists fighting the Green Party in Brighton Pavilion will probably feel aggrieved, as will those Liberal Democrat councillors fighting for their party's future in Labour heartlands.

The formerly Conservative councillor for Southwick Green was defending the seat as an Independent, with no Conservative contesting that ward.

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

Jowell had been elected to the Commons as MP for Dulwich (later Dulwich and West Norwood), in 1992, only two years before Blair's election as leader, but she had previously acquired 15 years of political expertise as a Labour 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).