| Candidate Name | Description | Statement |
| BLUNT
Joseph Samuel
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Conservative Party Candidate | If we are elected to represent our areas on Leeds City Council we will continue to work with our MP Alec Shelbrooke, who has, for nearly five years now, worked closely with our communities in order to represent the residents in objections to the initial proposed route by HS2 Ltd. Furthermore, our MP has committed to supporting residents throughout the pending petition stage whenever the Bill relating to Phase 2b comes before Parliament. If we are lucky enough to be elected as your local councillors in May then we will be supporting residents and our MP throughout that process.
Leeds City Council is run by a Labour administration that has a large majority of Councillors on the Council, including the incumbent Labour Councillors in Rothwell, Garforth & Swillington and Kippax and Methley. To date, the Council has provided little support to our areas since the initial HS2 route was announced, indeed it transpired that the Labour administration was working against our area, rather than with us, by lobbying for a HS2 station location that negatively affects our communities. On 3rd May, unless there is a change of leadership on the Council, we can’t promise to change the way Leeds City Council continues to ignore our communities, but we can promise to work tirelessly as local councillors to hold the Labour Council to account and to support the actions of our MP who has worked with the community for nearly five years in order to secure changes to the way HS2 arrives in Leeds. |
| BOLTON
Michael Edward
|
The For Britain Movement | |
| DOBSON
Mark David
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Garforth and Swillington Independents Party | Garforth and Swillington Independents remain of the view that HS2 will offer nothing the North needs in terms of better connectivity (across and through the North) and is a London-centric vanity project.
We remain concerned that the blight to communities in our ward have not been properly addressed and we are deeply worried as to how poorly the whole project has been developed to date. No questions we have ever asked receive satisfactory answers. Leeds Labours passion for the project demonstrates an administration seriously out of touch with many communities it claims to represent. |
| FIELD
Sarah Jane
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Garforth and Swillington Independents Party | Garforth and Swillington Independents remain of the view that HS2 will offer nothing the North needs in terms of better connectivity ( across and through the North) and is a London-centric vanity project.
We remain concerned that the blight to communities in our ward have not been properly addressed and we are deeply worried as to how poorly the whole project has been developed to date. No questions we have ever asked receive satisfactory answers. Leeds Labours passion for the project demonstrates an administration seriously out of touch with many communities it claims to represent. |
| GOLTON
Christine Mavis
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Liberal Democrats | The Leeds Liberal Democrats are the only local representatives that actually back up what we say with action on HS2. On Leeds City Council, both the Labour and Conservative Groups welcome HS2 to the city. Not one of their councillors, of either party, have ever voted against HS2 in the Council Chamber, and the Conservative MP has never voted against it in Parliament. All LibDem council candidates are residents directly affected by HS2 and all are committed to oppose it vocally and through our votes at Leeds Civic Hall to make sure the blight on our area is not ignored. |
| MALONEY
Annie
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Labour Party | |
| MCCORMACK
Suzanne Jane
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Garforth and Swillington Independents Party | Garforth and Swillington Independents remain of the view that HS2 will offer nothing the North needs in terms of better connectivity (across and through the North) and is a London-centric vanity project.
We remain concerned that the blight to communities in our ward have not been properly addressed and we are deeply worried as to how poorly the whole project has been developed to date. No questions we have ever asked receive satisfactory answers. Leeds Labours passion for the project demonstrates an administration seriously out of touch with many communities it claims to represent. |
| MIDGLEY
Mirelle
|
Labour Party | |
| PRATT
Mark
|
Labour Party | |
| RICHARDS
Linda Judith
|
Conservative Party Candidate | If we are elected to represent our areas on Leeds City Council we will continue to work with our MP Alec Shelbrooke, who has, for nearly five years now, worked closely with our communities in order to represent the residents in objections to the initial proposed route by HS2 Ltd. Furthermore, our MP has committed to supporting residents throughout the pending petition stage whenever the Bill relating to Phase 2b comes before Parliament. If we are lucky enough to be elected as your local councillors in May then we will be supporting residents and our MP throughout that process.Leeds City Council is run by a Labour administration that has a large majority of Councillors on the Council, including the incumbent Labour Councillors in Rothwell, Garforth & Swillington and Kippax and Methley. To date, the Council has provided little support to our areas since the initial HS2 route was announced, indeed it transpired that the Labour administration was working against our area, rather than with us, by lobbying for a HS2 station location that negatively affects our communities. On 3rd May, unless there is a change of leadership on the Council, we can’t promise to change the way Leeds City Council continues to ignore our communities, but we can promise to work tirelessly as local councillors to hold the Labour Council to account and to support the actions of our MP who has worked with the community for nearly five years in order to secure changes to the way HS2 arrives in Leeds. |
| YOUNG
Jordan Luke
|
Conservative Party Candidate | If we are elected to represent our areas on Leeds City Council we will continue to work with our MP Alec Shelbrooke, who has, for nearly five years now, worked closely with our communities in order to represent the residents in objections to the initial proposed route by HS2 Ltd. Furthermore, our MP has committed to supporting residents throughout the pending petition stage whenever the Bill relating to Phase 2b comes before Parliament. If we are lucky enough to be elected as your local councillors in May then we will be supporting residents and our MP throughout that process.
Leeds City Council is run by a Labour administration that has a large majority of Councillors on the Council, including the incumbent Labour Councillors in Rothwell, Garforth & Swillington and Kippax and Methley. To date, the Council has provided little support to our areas since the initial HS2 route was announced, indeed it transpired that the Labour administration was working against our area, rather than with us, by lobbying for a HS2 station location that negatively affects our communities. On 3rd May, unless there is a change of leadership on the Council, we can’t promise to change the way Leeds City Council continues to ignore our communities, but we can promise to work tirelessly as local councillors to hold the Labour Council to account and to support the actions of our MP who has worked with the community for nearly five years in order to secure changes to the way HS2 arrives in Leeds. |