Sentences with phrase «mayoralties in»

The party currently controls all five directly - elected mayoralties in London, and 21 out of 32 London boroughs, with 1,055 out of the 1,851 Councillors.

Last week's local elections have left Labour in a terrible state, losing hundreds of councillors to the rampant Tories and missing out on mayoralties in the South West, the West Midlands and, most improbably, the Tees Valley.

And if John Tory wins the mayoralty in this fall's municipal election, the nameplate on Prichard's law firm door will draw him even closer to the beating heart of the action.

By winning in Doncaster the English Democrats, had secured the second biggest Mayoralty in England and control of the largest Metropolitan Borough Council in England.

[8] Holding this position along with the mayoralty in later years enhanced Daley's power.

And he went on to manage Steven Norris's campaign for the London mayoralty in 2004.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won the mayoralty in 2013 on a progressive platform deriding the «Tale of Two Cities» that had developed in New York.

If their only recognisable London «character» can no longer compete with Boris, what chance any of the suits who are likely to actually contest the Mayoralty in 2012?

Quinnipiac's first poll of his mayoralty in January 2014 found 53 percent of voters approving of him.

What will he do with the Mayoralty in 2009?

I can not think of any more career - ending move than to do what he did yesterday, in the sense that he is leaving the mayoralty in May.

Left - leaning activist Bertha Lewis says she won't be supporting NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's re-election bid next year after helping the underdog win his successful bid for the mayoralty in 2013, saying she's «so over him» and «so disappointed.»

Both Nixon and Ansari were named to de Blasio's transition team after he won the mayoralty in 2013.

The party will also use a primary selection to choose Labour's candidate for the London mayoralty in 2016.

A new parliament in Scotland, an assembly in Wales, self - rule in northern Ireland, a mayoralty in London, the introduction of proportional representation for almost all UK elections bar the House of Commons — it amounted to a quiet revolution that may well endure as New Labour's most permanent legacy.

A former bond trader, Mr. Bloomberg chose to deliver the final major speech of his mayoralty in Manhattan, to the Economic Club of New York, a collective of Wall Street dignitaries that also hosts events with Federal Reserve bankers.

Not exact matches

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

And in Italy, a party founded only in 2009 by a comedian in protest against the political class recently won the mayoralty of Rome.

After Labour's election defeat in 2015, Khan announced he would run for the party's nomination for the London mayoralty.

McCabe faces competition in his own primary from John Quaglione, an aide to State Senator Martin Golden, and Robert Capano, an aide to grocery store magnate John Catsimatidis — a billionaire who declared on Monday he would not seek the mayoralty himself.

Labour MP Luciana Berger came third in the race to secure the Labour nomination for the Liverpool City region mayoralty behind Joe Anderson, while no women were on the shortlist for the Greater Manchester contest.

Elsewhere in OurKingdom, Michael Dawson addresses that very point: only two years ago, Mancunians rejected an elected mayoralty at a referendum.

But it is embarrassingly clear that no one among the gaggle of semi-announced pretenders to the mayoralty has had an original thought in decades.

With a mayoralty election year approaching, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a job approval rating of 40 %, up from his all - time low of 35 % in April.

With local elections being held all over the country on May 2nd, these results do not look good for the Tories, who will be defending their control of 26 county councils and three unitary authorities in England in addition to the mayoralty of North Tyneside.

If borne out in May, it would be the largest victory for any candidate since the London mayoralty was set up and a major boost for the Labour party.

Now, those who make a choice to be involved in our party will be given a real voice; a «primary» for the London mayoralty will expand our engagement across the capital's communities; and our processes for selecting candidates more broadly will open up.

Although Wright wasn't made available for an interview, spokesperson Emma Forbes sent a statement to Gotham Gazette implicitly confirming his interest in the mayoralty.

Mr Johnson, who has been Mayor since 2008, returned to the Commons in May as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, seven years after quitting Parliament when he won the Mayoralty.

But there is little doubt that if his mayoralty is a success he will be play a very influential role in the next Conservative government.

New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Safe Streets, an anti-carriage group, invested heavily in ads attacking former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — Mr. de Blasio's biggest rival for the mayoralty — on the 2013 campaign trail.

Albanese believes that one can claim to be a progressive all they want, but the mayoralty is not really about political philosophy or grand rhetoric, but about management of city government and services; in other words: being the pothole mayor.

In two debates, he repeatedly invoked Lhota's ties to Giuliani, calling Giuliani «divisive» and his mayoralty «not a good period.»

Whether de Blasio ultimately gets to walk through the front door remains to be seen, but barring something truly remarkable, it appears he will inherit one of the most demanding jobs in New York City — its mayoralty.

«He's in the nadir of his mayoralty.

In the meantime Quinn, who has been voraciously seeking the Mayoralty, could be secretly waiting to endorse him (again, Corey's existing endorsements aren't the only clue), but before that day comes, critical questions remain unanswered regarding the validity of Corey's claims on his campaign platform.

My only determination now is to succeed in my mayoralty.

Still, more voters approve of de Blasio's performance than approved of Michael Bloomberg's at roughly the same point in his mayoralty, when separate Quinnipiac polls showed his approval rating between 31 percent and 38 percent.

15:14 - A Lib Dem councillor in Bristol seems to have accepted independent candidate Ferguson has won the mayoralty.

Yet de Blasio's mayoralty stands apart from recent predecessors» in that virtually everything he does leads back to personal politics.

This month — 29 months into his mayoralty — he committed to his first weekly call - in radio slot, choosing WNYC's «The Brian Lehrer Show.»

«London faces enormous challenges and I believed in all my heart that I was best placed to do that, but it's important to get on with the business of this mayoralty without this business hanging over Boris» head.

The Campaign For One New York, the 501 (c)(4) group de Blasio started to advance his political agenda at the start of his mayoralty, is refusing to comply with a subpoena sent in recent weeks by JCOPE seeking information about the group's donors.

Boff is the leader of the Conservatives in the GLA and was defeated by Goldsmith in the race to be the party's nominee for the Mayoralty.

For the first time in his two - year - old mayoralty, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing broad - based grassroots resistance, which has coalesced against major components of his plans for creating 200,000 affordable housing units in 10 years.

It's still unclear whether Bill de Blasio will be able to stave off a runoff tonight, but in the race for public advocate — an almost entirely powerless position that is nevertheless first in the line of succession for the mayoralty, for some reason — state Senator Daniel Squadron and city Councilwoman Letitia James are locked in at around 33 percent to 35 percent each, and will face each other for the championship on October 1, according to the AP.

I am delighted that the Labour candidate for the Liverpool mayoralty, Mr Anderson, has endorsed the extension of academy schools in Liverpool and I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in working to ensure that those schools transform outcomes for young people.

De Blasio has said twice in the days since Bratton's comments that he believes the biggest mistake of his mayoralty so far has been his inability to quickly communicate to the public what actions his administration has taken to address the homelessness problem.

Early in his mayoralty, de Blasio was also harshly criticized for taking nine months to appoint a commissioner for the veterans office, and for a subsequent delay in making appointments to the Veteran Advisory Board.

There are only three citywide positions in New York and, as several white candidates are jockeying for the mayoralty and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer runs unopposed for comptroller, the public advocate's office is viewed by some Democrats as an opportunity to have demographic diversity on their ticket.