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2006 Islington Council Election
The 2006 Islington Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control. Election result The results saw the Liberal Democrats lose their majority on the council, after the Labour party made a gain of 12 seats. The Green Party meanwhile gained a seat on the council. Ward results * - Existing Councillor seeking re-election. References {{United Kingdom local elections, 2006 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine West MP CROP
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Library
The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament. It was established in 1818, although its original 1828 construction was destroyed during the burning of Parliament in 1834. The library has adopted the phrase "Contributing to a well-informed democracy" as a summary of its mission statement. History The Library was established in 1818 and a purpose-designed library was built for it by Sir John Soane and completed in 1828. This building, along with much of the mediaeval Palace of Westminster, to which it was added, was destroyed by fire in 1834. In the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, the Library was given four large rooms on the river front of the principal floor of the new palace, each 40 feet by 25 feet and some 20 ft high. This suite was fully opened by 1852, and two additional rooms added in the mid/late 1850s. One of these was to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Watts (politician)
Richard Watts (born 1975), is a Labour Party politician. He is currently Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. He was previously Council Leader of Islington London Borough Council, England. He was elected to that role in October 2013. In the borough elections of May 2014 he led the Islington Labour Party to an increased majority on the Council. Early life Watts attended Haywood Comprehensive School, Nottingham. He graduated with a degree in politics from Durham University and before this worked in the Pretty Polly tights factory in Nottinghamshire. Career Watts has lived in Islington since 1998. He represented the ultra-safe Tollington ward in the north of Islington from the 2006 until stepping down in 2021, during which time he led the council's Labour group. Before becoming a full-time member of Islington Council’s Executive, Watts ran the Children’s Food Campaign, a national campaign to improve children’s diets. Previously he worked for a num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor McGinn
Conor Patrick McGinn (born 31 July 1984) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North since 2015. He was the Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator from June 2021 and Shadow Minister without Portfolio from December 2021 until September 2022. He was suspended by the party in December 2022 after a unspecified complaint was lodged against him. Early life McGinn was born in Camlough, near Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and brought up in the nearby village of Bessbrook. The village was highly militarised during The Troubles. His mother was an NHS clerical officer, and his father was a Sinn Féin councillor. McGinn went to St Paul's High School, Bessbrook. Before going to university, he worked for the African National Congress in South Africa on a fellowship for two months. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, but did not initially complete his degree, remaining in London working for a mental health charity for Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece
Meral Hussein Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece, (born 10 October 1955) is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016, under leader Tim Farron. Early life Baroness Hussein-Ece was born in Islington. Her Turkish Cypriot parents, Ayshe Cuma Abdullah (mother) and Hasan Nihat Hussein (father), came to the UK from Cyprus in the early 1950s, and settled in Islington, North London. Ece and her second cousin Tracey Emin's paternal great-grandfather, Abdullah, was reportedly a Sudanese slave in the Ottoman Empire. Career Ece originally studied art history and fine art at Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, before going to work in local government and training as a librarian. She subsequently worked for Islington Council's R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Skidmore
Christopher James Skidmore, (born 17 May 1981) is a British politician, and author of popular history. He served as Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from December 2018 to July 2019, and from September 2019 to February 2020, during which hsigned UK's Net Zero pledge into law He also served aInterim Minister for Energy and Clean Growth Currently, he serves as thChair of the Net Zero review since September 2022 Skidmore was first elected in 2010 as the Conservative member of Parliament (MP) for Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, and became vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for Policy in 2018. On 26 November 2022, he announced that he would be standing down at the next general election. Early life and education Skidmore was born on 17 May 1981 in Longwell Green, Avon. As a teenager, he became a member of the Conservative Party in 1996. Skidmore was educated at Bristol Grammar School, an independent day school, before attending Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Webbe
Claudia Naomi Webbe (born 8 March 1965) is a British politician who is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East. Elected to Parliament for Labour in the 2019 general election, she currently sits as an independent. Born in Leicester, Webbe was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington from 2010 until her resignation in March 2021, having served as its cabinet member for environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 until her election to Parliament. Webbe is the first female MP for Leicester East. She was suspended from the party whip in September 2020 after being charged with harassment of a woman who was having an affair with her then-partner. She was later expelled from the Labour Party on 3 November 2021 after being convicted in October 2021. Webbe lost her appeal on 26 May 2022. Early life and education Webbe has described how she was born and brought up in Leicester to parents of Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Humphreys (author)
James Humphreys (born 1967) is a political analyst and author. He grew up in Cambridgeshire and studied Social History at Cambridge University. Civil service and political career Humphreys worked as a civil servant, negotiating environmental legislation with the European Union and later becoming Head of Corporate Communications at the Prime Minister's Office. He was Professor of Government at City University London from 2005 to 2009. He is a member of the Green Party and became chair of the party in 2008. He stood for election in Islington South and Finsbury in the 2005 and 2010 general elections and for Islington Council also in 2010. He is an adviser to the Green Party Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas. He works as a political consultant, for the firm Woodnewton, and is a trustee of the Woodland Trust. Author Humphreys is the author of ''Negotiating in the European Union: How to Make the Brussels Machine Work for You''. Quite separately, Humphreys has pursued a career as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Kelly (journalist)
Phil Kelly (born 1946) is an English journalist. Born in Wigan and educated at St Mary's College Crosby and Leeds University, Kelly worked on ''Time Out'' and the ''Leveller'' in the 1970s and joined ''Tribune'' in the mid-1980s, working as a reporter and then news editor before becoming editor (1987–1991). Kelly subsequently worked as an aide to the Labour MP, Michael Meacher. He was a Labour Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ... councillor in 1984-86 and 1990–98, latterly as the council's deputy leader. He was re-elected to the Council in 2006. He then became a partner at public affairs consultants Butler Kelly Ltd. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murray (London Politician)
James Stewart Murray (born 13 July 1983) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury since 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing North since the 2019 general election. From 2016 to 2019, he was Deputy Mayor for Housing for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Early life Murray was born in Hammersmith to parents Geoffrey and Lynne Murray. His mother Lynne was a Labour councillor for Cleveland ward in Ealing from 2014 to 2018. He grew up in West Ealing, attending an independent school, before studying PPE at Wadham College, Oxford. Murray graduated with a BA First Class Honours degree in 2004. Political career Murray served as a councillor in Islington from 2006 to 2016, representing Barnsbury ward, centred on the area of the same name. He was the borough's Executive Member for Housing and Development from 2010 to 2016. In this role, ''Inside Housing'' reported that he "proved himself to be a tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party Of England And Wales
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; cy, Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr, kw, Party Gwer Pow an Sowson ha Kembra, often simply the Green Party or Greens) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since October 2021, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay have served as the party's co-leaders. The party currently has one representative in the House of Commons and two in the House of Lords, in addition to hundreds of councillors at the local government level and three members of the London Assembly. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation. It takes a progressive approach to social policies such as civil liberties, animal rights, LGBT rights, and drug policy reform. The party also believes strongly in non-violence, universal basic income, a living wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine West
Catherine Elizabeth West (born 14 September 1966) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green in May 2015. Early life and education West was born on 14 September 1966 in Mansfield, Australia, one of four children to Janet (née Conti) and Roderick West AM. Her parents were both teachers and her father was Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School in Sydney for 21 years. She is the great-great niece of Italian actress Italia Conti. She grew up in Sydney and was privately educated at Meriden and Ravenswood. West studied modern languages and social work at the University of Sydney. While studying there, she met her future husband Colin Sutherland who was the nephew of opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland. They lived together in Darwin, Northern Territory where she worked as a social worker in a refuge for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. West and Sutherland moved to the United Kingdom (UK) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
