Sentences with phrase «become councillor»

Last year he won a spectacular victory for the Liberal Democrats in a by - election to become councillor for the ward of Llay.

Gill became a councillor in 2012 and was Sandwell's cabinet member for public health and protection, alongside being chosen for the «Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme».

Her colleague Blackman, meanwhile, initially trained to be a doctor before becoming a councillor, and says she would have gone into teaching should she not have become an MP.

Blur's Dave Rowntree becomes a councillor, one election was decided by straws, and the Tories insist they're not celebrating after big wins.

Labour won its two Westminster by - elections comfortably in Ogmore and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, where Gill Furniss successfully stood to replace her late husband Harry Harpham - whose son also became a councillor in the city.

Suliman Gani, a community leader with conservative views, was tapped by the Tories to attend an event aimed at encouraging more Muslims to become councillors.

[2] She resigned the Conservative whip on 15 May 2013, [3] and then became a councillor with UKIP from 29 May 2013 [4] to 22 May 2014.

In the Council elections on May 4th 2006, he achieved a 9 % swing, and became a Councillor aged 27.

In February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.

Not exact matches

Councillors in Plattsburgh, NY, have unanimously voted to prevent their city from becoming a cryptocurrency mining hub.

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.

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.

She joined the Labour party, became a press officer at its Transport House HQ, was elected as a local councillor and set her sights on being an MP.

Industry veteran Bingle was a Tory councillor in Wandsworth in the 1980s, where he was so enthusiastic about introducing speed humps in the borough that they became known as «Bingle bumps».

He was a local councillor for over twenty years, and since becoming an MP, was elected on to the Business, Innovation and Skills committee.

Blackman became an SNP councillor in Hilton in 2007; Crawley worked in Holyrood after graduating from Stirling University before a flutter in the private sector.

The person who gets the largest number of votes in each constituency (or ward) becomes the MP (or councillor).

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.

Party leader Nigel Farage had failed to become Thanet South's MP, but his party reduced Labour councillors from 24 to four and won overall control of Thanet district — its first principal council.

The BBC's Peter Henley reported yesterday that three Lib Dem councillors in Chris Huhne's backyard have become independents:

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

He became the youngest councillor in the country in 2007 when he gained a seat on the Croydon Ward in Wellingborough aged 18 - much to the dismay of his parents, who warned his political endeavours could stifle his studies at Queen Mary's, London.

Maybe their enthusiasm will led them to register to vote, to join a political party, to read political biographies, to become policy wonks, local councillors, maybe even Cabinet ministers.

However they failed to gain at Bilton, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire where Liberal Democrats recovered the seat of a former party councillor who had become independent.

Noon Seats and candidates: Conservatives promise # 250,000 pa to help disabled people become MPs and councillors

Norma was born and raised on North Tyneside and had a long and successful career in education before becoming a local councillor.

However, parties are dependent on local councillors to keep going in most areas, and if a party's local councillor base is destroyed, it becomes increasingly hard to do well at Parliamentary level.

The Chairman, Patricia, is an ex-Labour councillor who became disillusioned with Labour and joined us.

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.

I was a trauma and emergency doctor in London with a number of years overseas doing humanitarian aid work and I'd only become a local Labour councillor in May of 2014.

All I know is that in 11 years of being a local councillor, it became increasingly difficult for us as a planning authority to get the houses built that we knew we needed.

I became a grassroots activist, then, in the way of these things, a councillor, and in 1998, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale - a seat we hadn't won since 1906.

She worked as a parliamentary researcher for Network Rail and spent four years as a councillor in Southwark before entering the Commons in 2010 and quickly becoming parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown.

An advisory council which today has seen most of its powers devolved, but it still a valued honour for politicians, with Cabinet Ministers and most ministers of state automatically becoming a Privy Councillor and entitled to be a Right Honourable.

The Conservatives yesterday promised # 1m to fund a four year programme that would help more disabled people become MPs, councillors and civil servants.

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.

David Blunkett, who became leader of the city council in 1980, had been the youngest councillor in the country 10 years earlier when he and Michie were first elected.

Karen, a Labour councillor 16 years his junior, posted photos of herself wearing low cut tops, and became known as «the Selfie Queen».

In the aftermath of the 2017 election a new coalition was agreed between the SNP and Labour with Labour Councillor Christine Simpson becoming Provost of Stirling and the SNP's Graham Houston becoming depute convener of the council.

Before becoming an AM he was Leader of Wrexham Council for six years and a Ponciau Councillor for 20 years.

He encounters ambitious Conservative councillor Leonard Cartwright (Greeves), who is vying to become a parliamentary candidate.

A Labour councillor who defected to the Liberal Democrats has launched a strongly worded denunciation of her former party, saying it has become «increasingly authoritarian».

«Grenoble becomes the first French city to roll back [water] privatisation,» remembers Olivier Bertrand, who has since been elected municipal councillor with the majority party, the Greens.

The Liberal Democrats gained 16 seats to leave no party with a majority on the council, but the Liberal Democrats became the largest party with 27 councillors.

Islington councillor Claudia Webbe made the final shortlist to become the Labour candidate in next month's by - election.

[3] However, in May 2013 two Conservative councillors, Steve Hayward of Ducklington ward and David Snow of Witney North, resigned from the party to become independents.

Similarly there were two Labour defections, long - time Labour councillor Dorothy Walton went to the Liberal Democrats and Michael Smith became an Independent.

The largest party in terms of councils and councillors became the Conservative Party after this election, with losses by the Labour Party and a small increase in share of the vote to the Liberal Democrats.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.