Sentences with phrase «life as a councillor»

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.

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An honorary life member of Redhill Cycling Club, Peter has competed in road races and time trials, as well as serving as a committee member, event organiser, divisional councillor, divisional committee member and national councillor.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

Nevertheless, in this space, I want to reflect on why the so - called «embittered sliver» — that 81 per cent of his PLP; not to mention all Labour MEPs, hundreds of Councillors, all living former leaders and all but three MSPs, and as recent polls indicate, an increasing portion of the membership — could possibly want to see the back of him.

He has always been fascinated by politics and debating and after reading physics at university (now there is a rarity) gained experience as a local councillor in Croydon, where he was born and lived, then at CCHQ in research and campaigning and working with the young George Osborne as well as Lynton Crosby and Michael Ashcroft.

There might even be a case for breathing a bit of life back into London's Lib Dems, represented by the long - time former Southwalk councillor Caroline Pidgeon, who are, in the country's most liberal city, just as moribund as everywhere else.

Follow the 2014 local elections results live as more than 4,000 councillors are elected in England across metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities, non-metropolitan districts and in every seat in every London borough.

[Mayor] Mussatto said it was important for councillors not to focus on just the harm caused by fossil fuel, but also pragmatic solutions that an ordinary person could implement, such as taking transit or not idling unnecessarily, «I couldn't live without my vehicle, but I can certainly reduce the number of trips I do use it for,» he said.