Sentences with phrase «councillors standing»

Mr Miliband was canvassing with Doncaster Council Labour councillors standing in the local elections.

Mr Miliband was canvassing with Doncaster Council Labour councillors standing for re-election in local elections this coming Thursday.

Councillors standing down at the election included Gwen Richardson and Erica Shaw, while former Labour group leader David Potter and the former Conservative council leader from the 1980s and 1990s, Stephen Reid, attempted to return to the council.

After a couple of Labour councillors standing in the past two Holyrood elections, the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has been selected to fight this seat in 2016.

This is the case in Oldham, where we see elected councillors standing to attention as the Mayor's imam declares «Allahu Akbar» and prays to the Almighty Allah to help those who are suffering in all parts of the world — but particularly Palestine.

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.

Most of the local councillors stand as independent candidates, albeit their affiliations may be known locally.

It is important that as local councillors we stand together for our communities, who will suffer as the result of the severe and front - loaded cuts to local authorities.

Four councillors stood down at the election, Mark Booty, Eve Coles, Hywel Davies and Simon Hoare, while 13 councillors sought re-election.

A number of retiring Labour councillors stood down to allow retiring aldermen to be returned unopposed.

[9] Meanwhile, 7 sitting councillors stood down at the election, Christopher Beadle, Keith Blott, Bill Goodwill, Barbara Harpham, Keith Pudney, Alma Thrower and David Tomlin.

Not exact matches

Already, people are showing up by joining political parties, meeting with their MPs and councillors, and even standing for election themselves!

Councillor Binda Rai said she was «thrilled» by the outcome, adding: «This is really a stand for women, and for women's rights to access healthcare that is legally available to them.»

Councillor Andy Moore had been dropped from the list of Lib Dem candidates standing for re-election in May.

McCartney was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Enfield in 1998, for Edmonton, then Palmers Green, and stood down at the 2006 local elections.

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.

Their performance stands in stark contrast with that of their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, who lost roughly a third of their councillors.

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.

«Owen is standing in response to calls from ordinary members, Labour voters and Labour councillors, MPs and MEPs from across the country and from all wings of the party for him to do so.

declared one party conference veteran, gesturing beyond the patchily furnished exhibition hall, where the stands of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum were attempting to coax delegates with their wares.

The local Labour Party members should be ashamed of what their councillors get up to - smears and innuendo, none of it ever stands up.

«Tory councillor Jason Rust has been chosen to stand against Chancellor Alistair Darling at the next General Election.

Pam Chesters A councillor in Camden throughout the 1990s, she stood in Bristol West in 2001.

Local councillors, policemen, a property millionaire and a drag queen are just some of the candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections this year

Christine Shawcroft is not fit to be a member of the Labour party, let alone the NEC, having defending the right of a Holocaust denier to stand as a Labour councillor ✏ SIGN THE PETITION https://t.co/6kM72G6b5k

I will keep working hard over the coming months to stand up for Cardiff, supporting Jenny Willott MP and our fantastic team of councillors and campaigners.

Two other candidates have also been shortlisted, councillor Brenda Dacres, who stood unsuccessfully to be Lewisham mayor earlier this year, and Janet Daby, Lewisham's deputy mayor.

Yet she emphasised the importance of «the issue about how you get people into Parliament in the first place, and to get more gay people to come forward and stand as candidates and councillors,» and said the Labour Party is working on this, particularly LGBT Labour.

It doesn't cost anything to stand and anyone motivated to want to leaflet all the houses in their ward and argue against Brexit will have the desire, passion and skills needed to make a success of being a councillor if elected.

Now he uses his role as a councillor «who stands on his own» to maintain a high profile.

A remarkable investigation by The Times reveals that Ukip knowingly allowed dozens of racists, homophobes and violent criminals to stand as prospective MPs and councillors at the last election.

Councillors & mayors from 40 cities and towns across the EU agree to stand against #Ttip and #CETA #TTIPFreeZone pic.twitter.com/3kD1 4NNuWu

McGovern says she stood for election as Progress chair because the group had reached out to her when she was a councillor and she is keen use it as a vehicle to help other Labour campaigners «who are at the moment at risk of being left out».

A shellshocked Price said: «I live near here and I'm a Labour councillor, I've helped with demonstrations in Witney and stood outside his offices but never set eyes on him.

Egan, a councillor and trade unionist from the centre - left, stood on a «pro-EU, pro-migrant» platform.

[4] Meanwhile, Labour regained Popley East from the Liberal Democrats, after the former councillor Ian Powney stood down at the election.

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.

Ali Miraj has been a Councillor and stood as a Conservative Parliamentary Candidate at the last two general elections.

Only Tower Hamlets has reinstated EMA and Aim Higher, scrapped nationally by the same people who Labour group leader Councillor Joshua Peck stood shoulder to shoulder with in the vote on Thursday.

As a Labour councillor and candidate at next year's Scottish Parliament elections I'm excited about standing on a platform that offers hope of change not only in Scotland but across the UK.

Mark's previous political experience includes eight years as an elected councillor in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (1994 - 2002) and he stood as the Conservative candidate in Enfield North in 1997.

Rather, his political journey began as a Labour councillor in Hackney during the 80s and he stood as Labour candidate for Bury St Edmond in the 1992 election.

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.

The most prominent recent case is Amina Lone, who claims that she can not stand again as a councillor in Manchester because she is too opinionated about female equality.

[2][3] Both her parents were Labour Party councillors and her father stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate for Hertsmere in the 1987 general election.

«At the request of Toni Letts, a Labour councillor in Croydon, I considered standing as a Labour council candidate for Croydon.

13 councillors sought re-election, with the councillors who stood down at the election including the Conservative former council chairman Tony Walker from Kingham, Rollright and Enstone ward, the Liberal Democrat group leader Stuart Brooks of Freeland and Hanborough ward, and independent Derrick Millard of Stonesfield and Tackley ward.

[1] All 13 councillors who stood again were re-elected and overall turnout at the election was 71.58 %.

[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.

[4] 10 of the 11 councillors who stood again were re-elected and overall turnout at the election was 72.45 %.