Sentences with phrase «coalition ran the council»

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In England and Wales the system is also still used to elect local councillors and here «no overall control» situations frequently occur, where either a coalition of parties runs the council, or the largest party assumes control without a majority.

This council operated in a similar vein under the «progressive partnership» the Conservative and Liberal democrat coalition that ran the city before Sir Albert Bore wrestled control of the authority from Mike Whitby and Paul Tilsley in 2012.

Behar, a progressive reformer who ran unsuccessfully for City Council and State Assembly, has been quietly building a coalition of community and civic leaders, which are already expressing encouragement.

Nottingham council's Lib Dem group leader Gary Long told the Today programme: «I'm in favour of the coalition but I think he's run it very badly and in my view he should resign immediately.»

Despite the losses, the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition continued to run the Council with a reduced majority of 6 seats.

Cardiff Central MP Jenny Willott also accused Ed Miliband of talking down a Cardiff City Deal, after talks were initiated by the Coalition Government following months of inaction by the Labour - run Cardiff Council.

Running with support from the city's Democratic Committee, Noble led the progressive «One Kingston» coalition in a primary fight against Gallo - backed council candidates in an intra-party civil war.

The Conservatives and Independent Alliance have agreed a coalition deal to run Scottish Borders Council.

The council has been run for the past four years by a coalition of 30 Conservatives, who won the largest number of seats in 2010, and seven Liberal Democrats.

Scottish National Party and Scottish Liberal Democrats formed a coalition to run the council for the next 5 years.

David is a local councillor and is in fact currently a one - man Conservative bloc in a rainbow coalition running Inverclyde council.

The biggest prize for them is expected to be Birmingham, the largest council in the UK, which is currently run by a Conservative / Lib Dem coalition.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Emboldened by the eviscerating cuts imposed on councils by the coalition government — 28 % between 2011 and 2015 — large Tory - run authorities in Cornwall, Suffolk and Barnet, north London, have embarked on their own high profile versions of the Ridley model, claiming that impoverishment gave them no choice but to pursue large - scale privatisation.

The Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project, is a two year global project run by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (a coalition of 150 international companies «united by a shared commitment to sustainable development») and the International Institute for Environment and Development («an independent, non-profit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination»).