Sentences with phrase «elected councillors»

The Conservatives retained control of the council in the 2007 elections with a majority of four over the Liberal Democrats; these being the only two groups with elected councillors in 2007.

The Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner is scrutinised by the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the local authorities in the police area.

On December the 5th 2016, at their very first meeting and at the urging of local climate groups, the newly elected Councillors passed a motion recognising that we are in a Climate Emergency.

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.

In such an atmosphere, even if the application had not been withdrawn, it would have taken a brave Westminster planning committee - made up, of course, from locally elected councillors, with a duty to consider the views of their constituents - to grant planning permission in the face of such high profi le and vocal opposition, particularly when their own council leader had appeared to give his tacit support to the objectors and the future Head of State had provided their rallying call.

With the leader - cabinet system elected councillors can cover specific sets of services and ensure a democratic contribution is made to policy - making.

There are pockets across the country where the mood is ugly, as driven leftwing elements within the enlarged local memberships and in Momentum have targeted elected councillors or MPs whom they view as insufficiently Corbynist.

The people were given their voice and their democratically elected councillors voted unanimously to reject the proposal.

Councils are often seen as rather remote and many are unsure what elected councillors actually do apart from respond to grumpy emails about potholes or dog poo on pavements.

During recent weeks I told people that I believed that, in the 46 years I have campaigned on behalf of the Labour Party, including being elected a councillor many times and twice as an MP, there was nothing more important than the Referendum on the EU.

UKIP party agent Phil Heath and UKIP councillor Stephen West disagree over whether elected councillor Matt Ellery still represents their party.

I don't think Labour will get 9 councillors though I think maybe 1 or 2 conversley they could get there best vote since the 1970s and still not elect a councillor.

(74) Local Land Councils elect representatives to their Regional Aboriginal Land Council (75) and the regional councils elect councillors to the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

After University he was elected Councillor in Islington, North London, and in 1997 he won the constituency of Enfield Southgate, for which he served as MP for eight years.

Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said allowing local authorities to set up trusts would mean that parents worried about an academy could be sure that «the council and its directly elected councillors, who know their local schools and the communities they serve better than anyone else, will be able to step in and help».

When the results came in, much to our surprise, a majority of the newly elected Councillors, including the new Mayor, were people who had signed!

Voters have gone to the polls in Liverpool today to elect councillors to govern the city council and make the decisions affecting resident's daily...

Since being a elected a councillor and a prospective MP, it has been my personal belief that through voluntary work like working as a teaching assistant, cleaning up graffi ti, going on the beat with the police and sweeping the streets, politicians can maintain their feet on the ground and understand the issues affecting ordinary working men and women in their ward or constituency.

George Osborne hopes the regime of DEEMs will undermine the Labour party by concentrating executive powers in a DEEM, considerably reducing the power of directly - elected councillors, and in that way opening up the prospect of Conservatives winning the DEEM elections within areas where most councillors might be Labour, following the pattern in London where a mainly Labour region has a Conservative DEEM in Boris Johnson.

Although we only have elections every fours years to elect councillors to Cornwall Council, the Leader of the Council is actually elected annually by the Full Council.

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.

Although we only have elections every fours years to elect councillors to Cornwall Council, the -LSB-...]

OSIEC also stated that elected councillors would be running a parliamentary administrative system at the local government, where the councillors would elect a chairman from amongst them.

«The new government is opening up the pay of middle and senior management to greater scrutiny, and will require any six - figure salaries to be approved - or vetoed - by elected councillors in the full public glare of the council chamber,» he added.

But the mayor said it would «stimulate local democracy» and giving more powers over spending to elected councillors «would electrify politics and it was high time we did it».

The elected councillors for Wavertree are Helen Casstles (Labour Party), Rosie Jolly (Labour Party) and Dave Cummings (Labour Party).

Thus, unlike the other wards, it elected councillors with plurality at - large voting rather than first past the post.

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.

In Scotland all 32 local authorities are being contested, while in Wales 21 out of 22 will be electing councillors.

The Court of Appeal in Jos, on Wednesday threw out an appeal filed by Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, against 271 elected councillors he sacked in July 2015.

The elected councillors for Anfield are Cllrs Jimmy Kendrick for the Liberal Democrats and two Labour councillors; Brian Dowling and Ian Francis.

After a series of elections where Labour strengthened their majority on the Council the party suffered a number of losses and a majority of the elected councillors were Independents.

Twelve out of the nineteen elected councillors in Ohafia Local Government have appended their signatures in support of a motion for the suspension of the council...

Rabbi Danny Rich, the chief executive of Liberal Judaism, was elected a councillor, certainly with Jewish support.

Baptiste is an elected councillor and former chief of the 400 - member Xeni Gwet «in First Nations, located about 200 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

Regional planning would go and power would be returned to local communities and their elected councillors.

Because the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) decides matters of access to records held by municipalities, an issue often arises when the records requested are those belonging to a municipally - elected councillor, pursuant to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act («MFIPPA»).

He sat on a number of committees for the Bar of Montreal and the Barreau du Québec, was elected Councillor to the Bar of Montreal in 1998 and became President of the Bar of Montreal Ad Hoc Committee on Quebec Law Libraries.

Neither experience nor proficiency in municipal law and municipal planning, while desirable, is required to be elected a councillor.