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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2019 14:02:31 GMT
I bring up this subject as Graham Stringer was brought up in another thread, and whilst he didn't have a notably long tenure as leader of Manchester City Council, I noticed on his Wikipedia page that his immediate successor in 1996 was Richard Leese, who remains the leader to this day.
I believe Keith House (Eastleigh) beats him in being a council leader consistently since 1994. Are there any similar or even longer tenures as council leader? Past and present are both of interest.
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 25, 2019 14:08:28 GMT
Sir Robin Wales had a 23 year tenure in Newham, from 1995 to 2018 (the post changed from council leader to directly elected mayor in 2002), until he was deposed after quite a struggle.
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Post by Philip Davies on Jun 25, 2019 14:19:09 GMT
Roy Oldham was leader of Tameside from 1980 until 2010 so 30 years in total.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 25, 2019 15:41:25 GMT
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Post by ColinJ on Jun 25, 2019 15:59:28 GMT
Ray Puddifut MBE, Tory leader of Hillingdon counci, has been council leader since 2000.
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Post by andrewp on Jun 25, 2019 16:13:59 GMT
Lewis Rose, Derbyshire Dales 1987-95 and 1999-2019
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 25, 2019 21:43:28 GMT
Roy Oldham was leader of Tameside from 1980 until 2010 so 30 years in total. And didn't he invent some kind of recycling device for the council?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 26, 2019 7:08:51 GMT
I wonder how many council leaders shared a name with a neighbouring local authority
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Post by andrewp on Jun 26, 2019 7:22:09 GMT
Possibly more one for Ask the Forum thread but posting here to keep with the relevant topic- does anyone know of anywhere that records council leaders and their dates in office?
It’s possible to track some from old Municipal yearbooks, but I’ve never found anything else.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 26, 2019 8:11:50 GMT
Yes. There's this file on my hard drive called "Council leaders.odt" which records council leaders and their dates in office.
It's incomplete. Good for London Boroughs, reasonably good for County councils and Metropolitan Boroughs. Patchy for non-metropolitan districts. Sourced from Municipal Yearbooks and further checks.
Note it was not until 1979 that the Municipal Yearbook first systematically reported the chairs of committees on each council.
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 26, 2019 8:33:29 GMT
I wonder how many council leaders shared a name with a neighbouring local authority On the same lines we have of course Antoinette Sandbach MP
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Post by polaris on Jun 26, 2019 10:27:11 GMT
I wonder how many council leaders shared a name with a neighbouring local authority IIRC Leeds had a leader called Keith Wakefield?
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Post by polaris on Jun 26, 2019 10:31:08 GMT
Yes. There's this file on my hard drive called "Council leaders.odt" which records council leaders and their dates in office. It's incomplete. Good for London Boroughs, reasonably good for County councils and Metropolitan Boroughs. Patchy for non-metropolitan districts. Sourced from Municipal Yearbooks and further checks. Note it was not until 1979 that the Municipal Yearbook first systematically reported the chairs of committees on each council. For London, Tony Travers wrote a book about the first fifty years of the London Boroughs, which includes a listing of the Leaders of each Council up until 2015.
Outside of London and the Mets, I'm not sure that all Councils actually had a Leader as such? For some, the Chair of Policy and Resources (or similar) would be the nearest equivalent.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 26, 2019 10:57:55 GMT
Yes. There's this file on my hard drive called "Council leaders.odt" which records council leaders and their dates in office. It's incomplete. Good for London Boroughs, reasonably good for County councils and Metropolitan Boroughs. Patchy for non-metropolitan districts. Sourced from Municipal Yearbooks and further checks. Note it was not until 1979 that the Municipal Yearbook first systematically reported the chairs of committees on each council. For London, Tony Travers wrote a book about the first fifty years of the London Boroughs, which includes a listing of the Leaders of each Council up until 2015.
Outside of London and the Mets, I'm not sure that all Councils actually had a Leader as such? For some, the Chair of Policy and Resources (or similar) would be the nearest equivalent.
There are lots of councils where the term 'leader of the council' was resisted until (and sometimes after) the Local Government Act 2000 created it. The London County Council seems to have been one of the first to use the term, from 1934 officially.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2019 11:13:37 GMT
I wonder how many council leaders shared a name with a neighbouring local authority Unfortunately Belfast stalwart councillor Anne Trimand-Newtownabbey never did become council leader. Nor did Liz Burnand-Castlereagh.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jun 26, 2019 11:46:00 GMT
Outside of London and the Mets, I'm not sure that all Councils actually had a Leader as such? For some, the Chair of Policy and Resources (or similar) would be the nearest equivalent. [/p][/quote] It was often an informal post that existed in reality, and was referred to in the local press etc, but not on paper. In pre-local government deform Birmingham the term was used to refer to the leader of the majority group on the council; said person was usually, but not always, also the Chairman of the wonderfully named General Purposes Committee, which was supposed to function like the council's cabinet; it included in its membership all of the Chairmen of all the other committees, plus some shadowing opposition councillors.
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Jun 26, 2019 17:04:10 GMT
I wonder how many council leaders shared a name with a neighbouring local authority Not quite on the same lines, but up until fairly recently Flintshire had a council leader (Aaron Shotton) who shares a name with a town within the authority he was running (though sadly his ward neither covers nor borders that town).
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Post by timrollpickering on Jun 26, 2019 18:45:37 GMT
A historic case is Sir Archibald Salvidge, who led Liverpool from 1890 until his death in 1928.
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