Sentences with phrase «as councillors from»

The Guardian interviewed Labour chairs, secretaries and other office - holders, past and present, as well as councillors from 101 of the 632 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales on Thursday, Friday and Monday.

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At the very least George Osborne should be stripped of his title as a Privy Councillor and barred from any secure briefings that the role gives him.

Ford is leaving town on a trip to Austin, Texas, where he and a delegation of city councillors and music industry leaders are to try to glean lessons from the city as to how to better brand Toronto as a music - friendly town.

Disappearing from the Wildrose candidate roster is Chestermere Town Councillor Heather Davies, who was nominated as the Wildrose candidate in May 2011.

Councillor Toby Neal at Nottingham City Council was quoted by the Nottingham Post as saying: «Whilst respecting the court's decision, I feel the judge has missed the point of us bringing this action, which was to protect people from feeling bullied and intimidated while accessing hospital services - something we don't welcome in our city.»

Senior Vice President Councillor Mike Thomas from AETOS commented: «As a leading Forex broker and CFD provider worldwide, AETOS is so proud to become the principal partner of the Sydney FC in their 2018 AFC Champions League campaign.

Blackman, like the rest of our MPs, says she is «very rarely» made aware of her age, a fact that diverges from her time as a councillor.

The government wants to ensure that nobody is discouraged from representing their local community as a local councillor and therefore intends to introduce this new exemption so that in the future, travel expenses paid to local councillors, including those to cover the costs of journeys to their council offices, are not subject to income tax or NICs.»

She was elected as a local councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor Councillor from 1995.

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.

On Friday, Farage threatened to escalate that row after describing the Essex councillor as a «rough diamond» and criticising what he called metropolitan snobbery against people from outside the capital using «colloquial» language.

Those applicants include Diane James — a fellow MEP and former high - profile byelection candidate — and Lisa Duffy, a previously unknown councillor who has been winning endorsements from modernisers such as suspended former deputy chairwoman, Suzanne Evans.

The civil service welcomes combined authorities with DEEMs as a way of achieving its long - held aspiration to diminish by amalgamations the number of councils, and thus councillors who do not want to accept the line from Whitehall.

Field served as a councillor in the London Borough of Hounslow from 1964 to 1968.

It's clear from feedback on the ground that our local candidate is well respected as a hard - working councillor.

We have run a strong campaign from the off and with the Prime Minister, the International Development Secretary and the Immigration Minister in the constituency today, as well as dozens of MPs, councillors and activists, today has been a high visibility day.

Along with her long history as Coatbridge and Chryston MSP, this may help her weather the challenge from SNP Councillor Fulton MacGregor.

Labour held onto their councillors here and their vote share improved, but their lead over the Tories has been slashed from more than 13 % to less than five percent as Ukip implodes.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

Our members who served as councillors between 2013 and 2015 are owed N8.6 m each from which only N1m each had been paid.

But there was fury from Labour figures as the party still lost councillors - the first time in recent memory that's happened in a leader's first year - despite opposing «the most right - wing Tory government ever».

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.

It is chaired by the party president, currently Sal Brinton, and includes members of the party - at - large elected every three years in an all - member ballot, as well as representatives from the state parties, MPs, peers, MEPs, and councillors.

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

Garnant ward councillor Kevin Madge will be succeeded as Labour leader by Jeff Edmunds, from Llanelli, who represents the Bigyn ward.

Much to her surprise, Amina Ali, a Labour councillor from the London borough of Tower Hamlets, was chosen as the candidate.

They may be small and disorganised, but please stop insulting them by excluding them from «the mainstream» as they have councillors, mep's, peers and an MP.

The former Labour Councillor and Trade Union representative thanked his family and said he was honoured to have made Stoke his home as he made his victory speech from the stand.

Dennis Skinner, the long serving MP known as the «beast of Bolsover» is to be the subject of a feature length film tracking his rise from miner and local councillor to becoming one of the nation's best known MPs.

The Liberal Democrats had lost majority control of Guildford Borough Council in February 1997 as a result of councillors resiging from the party.

Mr Huhne resigned from the Cabinet when he was charged with perverting the course of justice, and later quit as a Liberal Democrat MP and privy councillor.

He was elected to Grampian Regional Council in 1982 (as Scotland's youngest councillor) and was Chair of Grampian's Economic Development and Planning Committee from 1986 to 1991.

David Cameron's Conservatives are making good progress from a low base, but should remember the lesson of last year's Ealing Southall by - election fiasco where, as Sunny Hundal of the Pickled Politics blog notes: «The Tory modernisers got sucked into the worst of communal politics», securing the bloc defection of five Sikh Labour councillors but not the voters they claimed to speak for.

Cllr Mike Katz, a Labour councillor in Kilburn Ward in Camden, has been deselected from standing as a Labour candidate in the council elections next year.

Cllr Amadi subsequently resigned from the Labour Party and currently sits as an Independent Councillor.

His daughter, Christine, followed her father as a London Borough of Croydon councillor for Coulsdon East ward from 1992 to 1998.

[13] Meanwhile, the Conservative group split in half, with the 3 councillors from Brondesbury Park ward forming their own Brondesbury Park Conservatives group, after failing to replace Kenton councillor Suresh Kansahra as leader of the Conservative group, while the 3 Kenton Conservative councillors remained in the Conservative group.

[3] However, in April 2005 Conservative councillor Peter Green resigned from the party to sit as an independent, meaning that going into the 2006 election the Conservatives had 28 seats and there were 7 independents.

She was elected as a Councillor on Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council in 1994, where she served as Mayor from 1996 — 97.

[1][2] Both Dobson and Field had been elected as Labour Councillors but resigned from the Labour Group and whip in February 2017 to stand as independents.

Elected originally as a Labour Councillor, Dobson resigned from the Labour Group in October 2017.

A total of 13 councillors were elected from all but two of the council's wards as a third of the council was up for election.

A total of 13 councillors were elected from 13 wards as a third of the council was up for election.

Councillor Brenda Dacres, who stood unsuccessfully to be Lewisham mayor earlier this year, said she was motivated to stand by the Windrush scandal, as a single mother whose parents were from the Windrush generation.

GLA member and local councillor Bob Blackman has emerged from what appears to have been quite an acromonious selection process as the victor at an open primary election yesterday evening for the seat of Harrow East.

These councillors have now resigned from the Labour Party, describing north east Labour's region as being like North Korea.

Navin Shah has served as a Harrow Councillor for Kenton East Ward from 1994 - 2014, Leader of Harrow Council from 2004 to 2006, and remained the Harrow Labour Group Leader until June 2008.

Two local councillors resigned from the party in protest, one of whom subsequently stood against her as an Independent Labour candidate, somewhat denting her majority of 2,688.

Earlier this month, Ealing councillors voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to stop the anti-abortion groups from protesting outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the borough, including potentially using a time - limited public space protection order (PSPO), normally used to prevent antisocial behaviour such as street drinking.

Councillor Gordon Matheson, Leader of Glasgow City Council and Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, added: «Jet2.com's plans to launch five new in - bound services from Spain at very competitive prices next year is yet more great news for tourism in Glasgow and serves as a clear vote of confidence in Glasgow Airport and in the attractiveness of the city's fantastic cultural credentials.