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Riordan in 2019. Tom Riordan is an English civil servant. He was Chief Executive of Leeds City Council from August 2010 until September 2024, [1] and spent three months working part-time for the UK government from May 2020 leading the Contain strand within COVID-19 NHS Test and Trace programme, setting out the framework for managing local COVID-19 outbreaks.
The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
The Labour Party maintained control of the council, with their seat count holding steady. For the third year in a row, the Conservative Party lost three seats, all to Labour; the party would additionally lose a seat in Pudsey two days after the election when Trish Smith, re-elected the previous year, resigned to sit as an independent. [ 4 ]
The council announced that a total of 225 voters were turned away from the polls for a lack of ID and did not return. As per the election cycle, one third of the council's 99 seats were contested. The Labour Party maintained their majority control of the council, repeating the net gain of 3 seats they achieved in 2022 .
The first election to the reconstituted city council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. West Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986 and Leeds became a unitary authority. Political control of the council since 1973 has been held by the following parties: [2] [3]
Following a period supporting the Labour Party, Ali joined the Green Party, and began campaigning for election as the Green Party candidate for the Gipton and Harehills ward of Leeds City Council in 2022; [1] this was one of the UK's poorest areas, 40% of whose population was Muslim, with over 65% coming from minority ethnic groups. [2]
Amazon.com India's country head Manish Tiwary has resigned after an eight-year stint and will leave the e-commerce giant in October, the company said on Tuesday. His resignation comes as Amazon is ...
Gipton and Harehills is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner-city area of Harehills and residential suburb of Gipton. Councillors [ edit ]