Colin William Lambert (born August 1958) is a British politician and former schoolteacher, who served as Leader of

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council Rochdale Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England ...

from 2010 until 2014.

Early life and career

Lambert joined the Labour Party in the mid-1970s as a student. He later qualified as a teacher and became involved with teaching unions. He taught in Rochdale for 20 years. Lambert retired in 2023.

Political career

Lambert was a councillor from 2 May 1997 to 5 May 2016, representing the Heywood West ward. On the council cabinet, he represented Children, Schools and Families, when Rochdale was the fourth-worst

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in England. On 17 December 2010, nine

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councillors resigned from their party and left their coalition with the

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on the council, leaving Labour as the biggest party on the council with Lambert as council leader. In the 2011 council election, Labour remained the largest party and with 29 out of 60 councillors. On 3 June 2014, he resigned as council leader, two days after celebrating 1,000 days in the role. Lambert joined the

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in 2019 and was their parliamentary candidate for

Heywood and Middleton Heywood and Middleton is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Chris Clarkson of the Conservative Party. Constituency profile The constituency covers the west half of the Me ...

in the 2019 general election. He received 3,952 votes and came third behind the Conservatives and Labour respectively.

Personal life

Lambert is married with two children, and is happily retired. and lives in Broadhalgh. He enjoys walking as a hobby.

References

External links

Rochdale Borough Council

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