Sentences with phrase «local councillors from»

In a joint letter to the Observer, local councillors from the three major political parties argued that the proposals would be expensive and fail to address the real problems facing schools.

Sure, local councillors from all parties do important work and personal votes can be gained — yet on the big picture Labour were lying.

The Met has distributed a draft constitution to all ward panels which includes a clause barring local councillors from voting rights.

Somewhat bizarrely, it's claimed by the bill's backers that, left unchallenged, the high court ruling could prevent local councillors from laying a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday event.

Not exact matches

In the speech, for the Conservative Councillors» Seminar in central London, Mr Osborne stressed that a Conservative government would learn from local councils how to reduce administration costs in order to focus resources on public services.

He tells how he learnt his «good old - fashioned Liberal community - style politics» from others, including a local councillor who he hung out with when aged 16.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

Last year, at a local public meeting, the most eloquent and passionate speech I have heard in support of our local NHS hospital came from a local Tory councillor.

Yet it shows that even one in four Conservative councillors think power will shift from local government to the centre during this Parliament, and the only unity between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at local level is about reducing council staff numbers.

Now we add the extra, controversial layer: in addition to their «allowances» councillors are also eligible to receive travel expenses for the constant journeying to and from their local authority offices.

The government wants to ensure that nobody is discouraged from representing their local community as a local councillor and therefore intends to introduce this new exemption so that in the future, travel expenses paid to local councillors, including those to cover the costs of journeys to their council offices, are not subject to income tax or NICs.»

She was elected as a local councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor Councillor from 1995.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

In a letter to Thames Valley Police, Tory councillor Simon Dudley spoke of «aggressive begging» and claimed that some rough sleepers had rejected help from local services and were therefore making «a voluntary choice».

It was not a successful strategy at the May local and European elections where the party lost more than 300 councillors and saw their presence in the European Parliament being reduced from 11 to one MEP.

It's clear from feedback on the ground that our local candidate is well respected as a hard - working councillor.

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.

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.

Recent progress from the Lib Dems in local elections - they now hold six of the seat's ten county councillors - has forced her on to the offensive, however.

Parmjit Dhanda, Member of Parliament for Gloucester from 2001 to 2010, and local councillor Suzanne Paddison, received several nominations each as additional nominations for BAME and women candidates, but are not seen as front runners.

If your council indicates that it will be counting on Friday or that it is yet to be decided, apart from letting me know, please lobby your local councillors and council leader to urge them to count the votes on the Thursday night.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is reviewing the rules on councillors» declarations of interest - at present they only have to declare sponsorship from a trade union.

And individual politicians and public representatives at all levels - from the Prime Minister to an opposition backbencher and from a school governor or local councillor - have an important role in working with us and with people with diabetes to make diabetes a priority.

Listen to councillors from across England give their take on the impact of the expenses scandal on local politics:

Sir, We welcome the discussion that has been opened following the letter (Feb 10) from the Liberal Democrat councillors regarding the Tory - Lib Dem Government's funding cuts to local authorities.

McGovern bristles, before hitting back: «For me, it comes back to what I learned from being a local councillor in Southwark, which is: what's the test?

Dennis Skinner, the long serving MP known as the «beast of Bolsover» is to be the subject of a feature length film tracking his rise from miner and local councillor to becoming one of the nation's best known MPs.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.

The election used the seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 23 councillors being elected, an increase of 1 from 2012.

Local elections in Wales also use FPTP, but councillors are often elected from multi-member wards (for example, the three candidates with the most votes are all elected).

The Society has attacked the DCLG's decision to ignore recommendations from its own Councillors Commission on the piloting of proportional representation for local government.

A «police and crime panel» of seven, drawn mainly from local councillors, will provide the sole check on the exercise of power and will, for the most part, only be armed with the underwhelming tools of recommendation and report.

Police Authorities included nine Councillors from relevant Local Authorities (upper tier only in two - tier areas), three local Magistrates and five independent co-opted memLocal Authorities (upper tier only in two - tier areas), three local Magistrates and five independent co-opted memlocal Magistrates and five independent co-opted members.

In February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.

A rift has widened within the Labour party over the selection of its local councillors, after the Momentum chief Jon Lansman called for a rerun of every candidate selection in London, claiming that sitting Jeremy Corbyn supporters were excluded from shortlists «for no good reason».

Aside from the boost to Tony's campaign this is also 5 local Labour councillors admitting that the council is better run under the Tories, lets hope Andy Coulson makes the most of this.

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.

GLA member and local councillor Bob Blackman has emerged from what appears to have been quite an acromonious selection process as the victor at an open primary election yesterday evening for the seat of Harrow East.

It was learnt that the former councillors who served from 2013 - 2016 in local government areas across the state had stormed the Government House in Yenagoa to demand payment of their severance gratuities and backlog of entitlements owed them by the government.

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

Two local councillors resigned from the party in protest, one of whom subsequently stood against her as an Independent Labour candidate, somewhat denting her majority of 2,688.

Yes to Pickles for Chairman although it would be a pity to lose him from Local Government when he is needed to put some steel into Tory local councilLocal Government when he is needed to put some steel into Tory local councillocal councillors.

The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.

Throughout the year we welcome visits from members of the wider public, including the police, local councillors and MP's and the business community.

And the chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, Councillor David Simmonds, called for «bureaucratic barrier «s which he said had prevented councils from intervening for a long time, «swept away».

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «Parents, the local community and local councillors have a right to know why a trust is being removed from its responsibility — and that should be done through formal processes.

However, the scheme has met with resistance from opposition parties, teachers» unions and Conservative local councillors.

Nevertheless, by the late 1930s and early 1940s John was regularly featured in international shows of Surrealist and Dada art and in 1938 his works were banned from an exhibition in Birmingham by local councillors as being «detrimental to public sensibility».

(Local Government, bias, non-pecuniary interest, leading case on circumstances in which a Councillor must recuse himself from a Council vote)

From national politics let's turn our sights to the local variety: Bob LeDrew over at Flacklife has picked up the newsdurhamregion.com story of Oshawa City Councillor Robert Lutczyk who claims to hold the copyright on the name «University of Ontario Institute of Technology» among other names.