Sentences with phrase «many local councillors»

That would be the preferred option for Adam Vaughan, the local councillor.

Disappointed by the move, Local councillor Kenny Khan said «These people pay local taxes.

As a local councillor he won a reputation for brave and steadfast decency.

Local Councillors have expressed criticism of the Labour council who made the deal with the church in exchange for turning their old building into a new school.

A bitter row has broken out on the Isle of Skye over a new # 10m Gaelic school, which one local councillor has dubbed a «disaster for community relations».

When I had my son I was a local councillor in Glasgow and took the view that I could not take the time off work for maternity leave, so I combined my role with being a mum.

She joined the Labour party, became a press officer at its Transport House HQ, was elected as a local councillor and set her sights on being an MP.

Many local councillors make a huge contribution to the communities they serve.

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.

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.

He was a local councillor for over twenty years, and since becoming an MP, was elected on to the Business, Innovation and Skills committee.

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.

Politicians in parliament rely on their local councillors to get them re-elected.

There are tremendous opportunities to have a conversation with the communities, local councillors and stakeholders in how to be creative and bold in designing the checks and balances.

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 is also supporting local councillors who have asked the council administration to immediately expand the Enhanced Enforcement Area to a wider area of Govanhill and to make a long term commitment to the regeneration of the area.»

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

In England and Wales the system is also still used to elect local councillors and here «no overall control» situations frequently occur, where either a coalition of parties runs the council, or the largest party assumes control without a majority.

Thank you to all the Longmeadow and Bragbury End Community Garden volunteers and local Councillors making a difference to our local environment pic.twitter.com / e2vgjKLjoP

In addition, the party has two seats on the Greater London Assembly, numerous local councillors across the country, and won control of Brighton & Hove unitary authority in 2011.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

There's a key challenge for local councillors here, as well.

If you need to survey Local Councillors then including questions on our regular omnibus polls provides a cost - effective approach.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

- I would certainly vote against a local councillor that did this without considering other areas first, but because of the shift to localism this is actually irrelevant to the matter at hand.

In three and a half weeks, people up and down the country will elect their local councillors.

My views have made me unpopular with some of my colleagues, but my position as a local councillor means that I am in the fortunate position of being aware of more of the evidence, and not just the information the tobacco companies feed me.

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

It says a lot about the distinct political character of the Northern Isles that the second placed candidate in the Orkney constituency in 2011 was an Independent, local councillor James Stockan.

Two former party rebels, former SNP local councillor Bev Gauld and former Labour councillor Danny Meikle, contest the election as independent candidates.

During her time as a local Councillor, she held positions as Chair of Licensing and Executive Member for Schools.

9th May 2016, Conservative Home: Andrew Kennedy: Too many of our local councillors are pale, male and stale.

All indications are that it is good news for Newquay and Cornwall according to three local councillors.

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

England's local councillors are elected under a First Past the Post electoral system with multi-member wards.

This has been due more to Government diktat rather than local councillors who have been caught in a web of satisfying Government and auditors rather than their own electorate.

The party's candidate, Mike Thornton, had been a local councillor for the party, and held the seat.

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.

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His seat is being contested for Labour by local councillor Lesley Hinds.

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.

Cobb, who intended to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, has received the backing of his local Labour MP Kate Hoey who claims her local councillors have a «vendetta» against him.

Maybe their enthusiasm will led them to register to vote, to join a political party, to read political biographies, to become policy wonks, local councillors, maybe even Cabinet ministers.

Voters in parts of England and Wales go to the polls next Thursday to elect their local councillors.

Khan was chair of the Civil Liberties group Liberty for three years and served as a local councillor in Wandsworth.

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.

«Council tax bills set to rise by more than 100 % under Labour Main Harry Phibbs: In 2008 are surgeries still an effective use of local councillors?»

«Frankly, every local councillor that I have spoken to, the ones who have performed better than anticipated today did so in the very, very local messaging.

Norma was born and raised on North Tyneside and had a long and successful career in education before becoming a local councillor.

Today, Labour Councils across the UK, and the Labour administration in Wales, are just so abjectly carrying out the devastating new wave of terminally damaging budget cuts, that the «Corbynite Left agenda» is being actively discredited, on the ground, long before we actually have any influence on the agenda of local councillors at all.