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| UPDATED
EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 20th
May, 2005 |
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| Mayor beats off rivals’ challenge |
OPPOSITION councillors failed
last week to prevent Labour councillor Barbara Hughes taking
over as the new mayor.
Tories and Lib Dems called on Cllr Hughes to step aside at
last Wednesday’s council meeting and allow Lib Dem councillor
Janet Schopflin become mayor for a year, followed by Tory
councillor Martin Davies.
Senior Lib Dem councillor Flick Rea, who resigned as group
leader after the general election, and Tory leader Councillor
Piers Wauchope issued a joint statement. It said: “The
mayor of Camden is a representational role that should be
as non-political as possible, and thus shared over time between
the parties.
“It is not right that only one party has provided the
mayor of this borough for the last 30-odd years.”
But the Labour group defeated the bid. Cllr Hughes, who has
just started her second term as mayor, will be followed by
her deputy, Labour councillor Abdul Quadir, in 2006.
The last time Camden had a Tory mayor was in 1971 when Councillor
Harry Gould was at the helm. In the late 1990s Labour allowed
a Tory to be a co-deputy mayor in honour of his lengthy service
on the council.
The first Tory mayor of Camden was Norman Oatway in 1968.
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