Sentences with phrase «first as a councillor»

«For the last 30 years, I have represented the good people of Bristol South, first as a councillor for Windmill Hill and then as the MP for Bristol South.

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First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

I was first elected as a Borough Councillor in 1982 and am now Leader of Hertfordshire County Council, Chairman of the County Councils Network and Chairman of the East of England Local Government Association.

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.

Mrs Thomas served on West Glamorgan County Council as Chair of the Social Services Committee - the first female councillor to chair such a major committee.

Green councillors will be elected for the first time in Essex, Cornwall and Surrey, the party leader has claimed as she predicted a rise in numbers overall in the May 2 local elections across English shire counties.

But there was fury from Labour figures as the party still lost councillors - the first time in recent memory that's happened in a leader's first year - despite opposing «the most right - wing Tory government ever».

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.

He also formed an alliance known as «The Coastals» (because of the seats they held) of Independents and the sole Green Party councillor, giving East Devon's ruling Conservatives the first true opposition they had faced for decades (the local Liberal Democrat and Labour parties being negligible).

Now Cllr Rust, who was Edinburgh's youngest councillor when he was first elected in 2004 at the age of 26, has been confirmed as candidate following a meeting on Friday night.

In this first three research appointments and his PhD studies local government issues were the dominant interest, a theme which covered work on issues as diverse as the executive and scrutiny reforms; member allowances; the role (s) of local councillors; local elections; departmentalism; community appraisals; consultations; ward boundary changes; and history and structure.

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.

Instead, he's a grassroots campaigner — the first party leader since John Major to have begun his political life as a councillor — who narrowly won the former Tory seat of Westmoreland and Lonsdale, and set about turning it into a bastion of liberalism.

Just as in general elections, local councillors in England and Wales are elected via First Past the Post.

As the County Councillor for the neighbouring area of Llanwddyn, Llangynog and Penybontfawr, I have first - hand experience of many of the issues affecting Dwyfor Meirionnydd and Mid-Wales.

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She was thoroughly Labour, first as an activist, then as a local councillor and MP and finally as a Labour peer.

In one, Woolas's agent and former Labour councillor, Joseph Fitzpatrick emailed Woolas and Steven Green, the MP's campaign adviser, to say: «Things are not going as well as I had hoped... we need to think about our first attack leaflet.»

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who first met Jowell in the 1970s when she was a north London councillor and he was a union organiser, described her as a «warm and compassionate» person.

First election result called and she keeps her seat as a local councillor.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

What we've done is try to shine a bright light on the industry here in Hamilton and we've worked with our local city council as well as councillor Matthew Green to bring in the provinces first municipal licensing of payday loan outlets in Hamilton.

Desmond Bull, a councillor with the Louis Bull Tribe, says, «As First Nations and Canadian citizens, we need to take care of each other, take care of the land and take care of future generations.»

For the first time in history, we are adopting explicit Codes of Conduct to govern the politicians who seek to serve as mayors and city councillors.

In 2009, Wilson - Raybould followed her father into First Nations politics as a councillor for the We Wai Kai Nation and regional chief for the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations — the only woman among the regional chiefs.