William Thomas Rodgers,Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,,is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament,he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979,and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988,and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside,in North West England. It has a population of 321,238,and encompasses 60 square miles (160 km2) of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead,Wallasey,Bebington,Heswall,Hoylake and West Kirby. The city of Liverpool faces the northeastern side of Wirral over the Mersey.
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside,England. It consists of 85 councillors,for the city's 64 wards. Following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission the number of wards increased to 64 at the elections on Thursday 4th May 2023. Three wards elect 3 councillors each,fifteen wards elect 2 councillors each and the remaining 46 wards each elect a single councillor,which brought down the total number of councillors to 85.
Joan Brownlow Hanham,Baroness Hanham,CBE is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
David Patrick Paul Alton,Baron Alton of Liverpool,KCSG,KCMCO is a British politician.
Edward Timothy Razzall,Baron Razzall,,is a British Liberal Democrat politician and parliamentarian.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone,was a British Labour politician.
Sir Owen Trevor Jones was a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the Liverpool City Council.
Michael James German,Baron German,OBE is a British politician,serving currently as a member of the House of Lords and formerly as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales East region. He was leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2008. In 1996,he was awarded an OBE for his public and political service.
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire,England. It is a metropolitan district council,one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England,and provides the majority of local government services in Leeds. It has the second-largest population of any council in the United Kingdom with approximately 800,000 inhabitants living within its area;only Birmingham City Council has more. Since 1 April 2014,it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Navnit Dholakia,Baron Dholakia,,is a British Liberal Democrat politician and a deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
Timothy Francis Clement-Jones,Baron Clement-Jones,is a Liberal Democrat peer and spokesman for the digital economy in the House of Lords.
Paul James Scriven,Baron Scriven is a Liberal Democrat politician and former Leader of Sheffield City Council (2008–11),who was once described as Nick Clegg's "closest ally in local government".
Wavertree ward was an electoral division of Liverpool City Council centred on the Wavertree,Liverpool district of Liverpool.
Paul Tilsley CBE is a British local politician. He was deputy leader of Birmingham City Council and the senior Liberal Democrat in the council's ruling Liberal Democrat–Conservative coalition. As of 2023,he is the council's longest-serving member,and was previously Lord Mayor of Birmingham,in 1993–4.
Rajinder Paul Loomba,Baron Loomba,is a philanthropist,founder and executive chairman of clothing company Loomba Group,and a member of the House of Lords.
The 2012 police and crime commissioner elections were polls held in most police areas in England and Wales on Thursday 15 November. The direct election of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords. The government considers the elected commissioners to have a stronger mandate than the "unelected and invisible police authorities that they replace". The elections took place alongside by-elections for the House of Commons in Cardiff South and Penarth,Corby and Manchester Central,and a mayoral election in Bristol.
Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London,the United Kingdom capital. Richmond upon Thames is divided into 18 wards and elections for all Council seats in the borough are held every four years. The most recent election was in 2022 when the Liberal Democrats,led by Gareth Roberts,retained overall majority control of the council for a second consecutive term.
Richard Charles Kemp,,is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Liverpool 2023/24 and in May 2024 will become the Lord Mayor for 2024/25. He was previously the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Local Government and Vice Chair of the Local Government Association of England &Wales for over seven years until August 2011. A member of Liverpool City Council for 47 years,he was Leader of the Liberal Democrats and opposition on the Council for 11 years until standing down to become Deputy Lord Mayor. Cllr Kemp has been a member of the Board of the Local Authority Mutual Investment Trust since 2011 and its Chair since 1 January 2019. He was awarded the CBE in 2011 for Public Service.
The 2022 Exeter City Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members to Exeter City Council in Devon,England. This was the same day as other local elections in the United Kingdom. 17 of the 39 seats were up for election,one councillor in each of the 13 wards,and 4 by-elections. These wards were last contested in 2018.
