Sentences with phrase «to run the council»

What would happen is all 130 Labour run councils refused to set «legal» budgets?

Labour were running the council on a minority basis before this election after a decade - long spell when no one party has had an overall majority.

From 2004, however, no party had a governing majority and a Conservative - Lib Dem coalition ran the council from 2004.

[10] However, despite holding 20 seats, compared to 17 for Labour and 11 for the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives remained in opposition, with Labour running the council with support from the Liberal Democrats.

The Lib Dems also ran the council in coalition with the Conservatives from 2004.

Ms Ward has a 1,151 majority over the Liberal Democrats (who run the council with an elected mayor), but the Conservatives are in a very strong third place - less than 1,000 votes behind the Lib Dems with 29.6 % of the vote.

He then has the gall to attack the Labour run Council for making cuts in services, when as Deputy Prime Minister, he is in a position to ensure that the cuts are not inflicted disproportionally on poorer parts of the country.

The Conservative party had run the council since the 2006 election and won an overall majority for the first time in 11 years after gaining a seat in a by - election in Buckskin from Labour in December 2006.

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council as a minority administration with them holding 18 seats, as compared to 10 for Health Concern, 7 Liberals, 3 Labour, 2 Liberal Democrats and 2 independents.

The Focus E15 campaign has been on the front line of this battle for the past two years and while we congratulate Mr Corbyn on his new position, until he challenges the actions of Labour - run councils as well as government policy, we remain sceptical.

Washington (CNNMoney)- President Obama on Monday nominated Alan Krueger to run his Council of Economic Advisers, moving to fill an important vacancy on an economic team that has undergone a nearly total makeover.

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.

Birmingham City Council has traditionally been dominated by Labour, who ran the council between 1984 and 2004.

It also reflects that while there can be these disagreements, it is still the case that people correctly place high value on the ability of a party to effectively run a council.»

Reform Party leader Curtis Sliwa has proposed filling the job via a citywide public vote, but that makes little sense: A speaker without support from a majority of the members can't run the council.

Richard Haass, a former aide to both presidents Bush who now runs the Council on Foreign Relations, recently wrote an essay declaring «Liberal World Order, R.I.P.» due to Trumpism and other threats.

The Labour - run council applied for the injunction after a small camp of around ten tents sprung up in a local park back in April.

Elections are closely contested and who runs the Council really does make a difference.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito says she has no regrets about her four years running the Council — and wants her next gigs to be helping Puerto Rico rebuild and fighting Trump.

Before the election the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties had run the council together for the previous 7 years.

Labour had been the biggest party, running the council without an overall majority.

This week, the Tory - run council unveiled its plan to further penalise the highest taxed group by removing their rights to a council house.

You might remember that this is the council that tripped up both Ed Miliband and Grant Shapps this week — the Labour leader was caught out for failing to recognise the name of his party's leader in Swindon (and for not knowing that Labour didn't actually run the council there).

She said there had been no discussions with the Lib Dems, who ran the council up until 2014, with whom she remains «diametrically opposed».

The Lib Dems have run the council at several times in recent decades — 1990 - 2002 and 2006 - 2010.

It condemned Labour - run councils implementing the cuts.

Before the election, in which 19 seats were being contested, the Conservatives ran the council with 33 of the 52 seats.

Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority.

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with a 4 - seat majority over the Labour party.

Fed up with how one party runs the council?

But Labour have been strong here in the past, running the council between 1990 and 2004.

Before the election Labour ran the council with 31 seats, compared to 14 Conservatives, 11 Liberal Democrats and 3 East Cleveland Independents.

Conservative Reading East MP Rob Wilson has blamed the Labour - run council as it runs 26 of the 35 primary schools in the Berkshire town.

The government's initial plan, announced 27 August, would have expanded TÜBA's membership from its current 140 members to 300: 100 appointed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan, 100 appointed by the government - run Council of Higher Education, and the rest elected by sitting members.

Scottish National Party and Scottish Liberal Democrats formed a coalition to run the council for the next 5 years.

Mr Osborne backed initiatives for sharing services between authorities and publishing spending details online, which have been trialed already by the Greater London Authority and Tory - run councils.

This is our report on a Labour - run council's failed attempt to prosecute homeless people who have been camping out in Manchester.

The Grenfell disaster found the Conservative - run council in Kensington and Chelsea wanting.

And this is happening across London, there have been similar accusations of social cleansing by Labour - run councils in Lambeth, Greenwich and elsewhere.

If Mark - Viverito is running the Council, then de Blasio can deflect blame if any particularly loony leftwing policy implementations go awry.

Yesterday at questions to Eric Pickles and his team of ministers from the Department of Communities and Local Government, a number of Tory MPs took the opportunity to highlight how their local Conservative - run councils are coping with the financial squeeze.

[89] In response, the Conservative - led Local Government Association, on behalf of 375 Conservative -, Labour - and Liberal Democrat - run councils, said that further austerity measures were «not an option» as they would «devastate» local services.

The public and our partners need this reassurance of stability allowing us to run a council that is fit for purpose.

Hundreds of voters were turned away from polling booths in a key London battleground after a blunder by the Tory - run council.

Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.

Lib Dem Julian Huppert claimed it would be a chance to «bring down» UKIP arguments, while Labour's Lucy Powell said it «would be a bit of stretch» to include UKIP when it had no MPs, while excluding the Greens which have an MP and run councils.

Despite the losses, the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition continued to run the Council with a reduced majority of 6 seats.