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The biggest talking points of this year's Bradford Council election

The election count at Sedbergh Leisure Centre WITH Labour retaining a majority on Bradford Council, with almost the same number of Councillors as after the last local election, you d be forgiven for thinking that there weren t many surprises this year. However, there were a number of big scalps when the results were announced, along with some subtle shifts in the political make up of the Council. After today s count Labour has 51 seats on the 90 seat Council. Just 46 seats were needed for the party to hold an overall majority. The Conservatives remain the opposition party with the most seats - 25. Liberal Democrats have seven seats, Greens three, Independent Socialists one and the remainder made up of independents.

As Merkel era ends, German politics in flux

As Merkel era ends, German politics in flux Posted : 2021-05-04 17:05 By Andrew Hammond With Angela Merkel in her final weeks of power, the German post-war political landscape was in a wider, historic ferment last week, with the Green Party sensationally topping national polls. In the weekly Kantar survey, the Greens polled 28 percent, up 6 percentage points. This fact means that, for the first time in the nation s history, the Green Party is more popular than Merkel s right-of-center Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, and also the left-of-center Social Democratic Party (SPD). The reason this fact is so significant for Germany is that the SPD and CDU/CSU have stood as the twin pillars of German politics since the end of the World War II, in a longstanding duopoly of power. But with the CDU/CSU s bearings uncertain in the post-Merkel era, and the SPD not polling strongly either, Germany may now fast be moving from a de facto two-party to a mult

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Covid is 'a chance to help people'

Within weeks of winning his seat in the Dáil, Green Party TD Steven Matthews says the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic became visible as every query became related to the coronavirus. The pandemic has shaped his first year as the county s first Green Party TD, creating unique challenges, but also providing its own opportunities for the new TD. Like everybody else, the last 12 months has been Covid-related, he says. It s impacted on everybody s job, everybody s life and as a new TD, it was no different. Matthews said he had about three weeks pre-Covid as a TD then every single query started to become Covid-related .

Calls grow to relocate 2022 Beijing Winter Games

Calls grow to relocate 2022 Beijing Winter Games Reuters 17/02/2021 By Steve Keating © Reuters/TINGSHU WANG FILE PHOTO: A year ahead of the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, in Beijing By Steve Keating (Reuters) - With the Beijing Winter Games less than a year away, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) are looking closely at human rights abuses in China, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday as calls to move the 2022 Games continue to grow. In regards to the Olympics, we continue to be very, very vocal in standing up for human rights around the world and calling out human rights abuses, as I have personally in the past directly with Chinese leadership, among many others, Trudeau told reporters during his daily press briefing.