Sentences with word «mayoralty»

Even under the supposedly bike - friendly David Miller Mayoralty of the last seven years, Toronto was confused and half - hearted about its support of cycling.

Although it won the London mayoralty in 2016 and several byelections, it generally did so by choosing candidates who distanced themselves from Corbyn.

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

As Jonathan indicated yesterday, Boris will surely run again for the London Mayoralty since, with David Cameron in Downing Street, his options are for the moment limited.

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.

Seeing the London mayoralty as an opportunity to shortcut the system and create an Obama moment, they look to get someone with a bit of spark and an existing public profile, surround him with political insiders, run him as an independent, throw big money at the campaign and hey presto - a black Mayor of London.

The East London borough's party branch still remains deeply divided after Lutfur Rahman, selected to fight for the directly - elected mayoralty by Labour, was dropped by the party national executive committee, after one of his rivals made allegations of extremism against him — claims that were later found to be without foundation.

Two years until New York City's next mayoralty election, Mayor Bill de Blasio's job approval rating...

«We don't believe that dark money is a necessary function of the modern mayoralty.»

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.

The modern London mayoralty began back in 2000 following a referendum in London which supported the creation of a mayor and a Greater London Authority and provided legislation to introduce the structures.

Table: Intensity of Support for Democratic Mayoralty Candidates (NYC Likely Democratic Voters with a Candidate Preference)

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.

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.

The heat of the second (and, we presume, final) instalment of Boris v Ken for the London mayoralty got a bit too much for the incumbent midway through the campaign.

Labour's last London target is the Tower Hamlets mayoralty, held by the controversial Independent and Labour expellee, Lutfur Rahman.

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

Fletcher is one of the more impressive operators to emerge from Livingstone's dysfunctional mayoralty, but he is a relatively new addition to Miliband's office, and his reputation and influence carry significantly less sway outside London.

Some critics suggest the New York mayoralty would be a step down for the internationally celebrated Clintons.

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.

Which leads to yet another overreacher — a fellow who has the tools necessary to construct a successful mayoralty, if not a bridge over the 6 - 1 registration advantage Democrats have over Republicans.

Last week was literally the worst week of his entire mayoralty,» Greer said.

Regardless of whether Bo Dietl becomes mayor in real life he'll always have an onscreen mayoralty.

Elections will be held on 4 May for English county councils, Welsh and Scottish councils, and the newly - created powerful regional mayoralties.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio met privately for more than two hours with the leaders of the city's police unions, aiming to mend a rift with rank - and - file officers that has threatened to overwhelm his young mayoralty.

«I can not allow the things going on around me to obscure the important business of this very important mayoralty and for that reason I must step down with immediate effect,» Mr Lewis said.

For a combative but contained 17 minutes, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday offered terse answers to an abundance of questions from reporters, mostly dealing with the fallout from overlapping federal and state investigations into his administration, in a performance that in recent weeks has become a kind of house style for his embattled mayoralty.

A Board of Health hearing in Long Island City tomorrow may be the only opportunity to comment, and Halloran described the Board as a «strong mayoralty agency.»

There's one possible candidate who many voters definitely don't want to see throw his hat into the 2013 mayoralty ring.

The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.

Its biggest disappointment was the failure of Gabriel Sakellaridis to win the Athens Mayoralty election, being beaten in the second ballot by Giorgos Kaminis with 51.4 % to his 48.6 %.

A Boris Johnson mayoralty would see London's agencies pool their resources to create a single fund tackling the long - term unemployed, it has been announced.

The relative success of the London results has boosted his chances of getting mayoralty nomination (even if his spectacularly poor Express article showed a lack of judgement).

In the search for the perfect metaphor to sum up Bill de Blasio's misbegotten mayoralty, it will be hard to top the scene at City Hall the other day.

It gives De Blasio (as well as Bill Thompson, who will also be a significant factor in 2013) an opportunity to strengthen his argument that a Quinn mayoralty will essentially be a Bloomberg fourth term.

With 2016 bringing a year of elections, for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and London Mayoralty amongst others, what can we learn from the General Election?

You know you're in for a rough mayoralty when the weatherman predicts that you're a one - termer just 43 days into the gig.

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.

The East London borough's party branch still remains deeply divided after Lutfur Rahman, selected to fight for the directly - elected mayoralty by Labour, was dropped by the party national executive committee, after one of his rivals made allegations of extremism against him — claims -LSB-...]

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.

There's also a lot of talk about a federal election coming up next spring and a big mayoralty race in Toronto.

We must never let people like Rahman and Galloway poison local politics again, and if the Tower Hamlets First /» independent» candidate Ms Khan or London mayoralty candidate Galloway ever get their hands on power again, then heaven help us all!

But, as Common Cause notes, «We do not accept that dark money is a necessary part of the modern mayoralty.»

The local authority, under his directly - elected mayoralty, had been converted into a rotten borough worthy of a whole issue of Private Eye.