Sentences with phrase «backing local councillor»

We're very happy to announce that Momentum are backing local councillor @SakinaZS to be Lewisham East's next MP.

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Cobb, who intended to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, has received the backing of his local Labour MP Kate Hoey who claims her local councillors have a «vendetta» against him.

McGovern bristles, before hitting back: «For me, it comes back to what I learned from being a local councillor in Southwark, which is: what's the test?

In its manifesto for last week's local elections, the BNP said its councillors would «seek a local referendum asking parents for their backing for a local prohibition on the teaching of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle choice».

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

But after Clegg led them to a thrashing last year, they are now back in an eight - MP people carrier (with probably only four MPs after boundary changes)-- and have few local councillors.

Such complicated arrangements incline me strongly to support adopting the practice of some countries, long backed by the Electoral Commission, the 2007 Councillors Commission and others, of a single four - yearly national or at least regional Local Elections Day for all councils — though not, as in Sweden, on the same day as parliamentary elections with different coloured ballot papers, and probably not in mid-November, like Denmark's.

If the local authority's education committee backs the village's councillors the school will have its roll limited to 125 pupils.