One of many youngest councillors elected within the UK has received her seat only a week earlier than she’s on account of take her A-level exams.
Daisy Blakemore-Creedon, 18, was elected to Peterborough Metropolis Council after beating the sitting Tory councillor Andy Coles within the Fletton & Woodston ward.
The Labour candidate stated she was “overwhelmed” by the native assist when she gained 940 votes to beat her opponent by 282 ballots.
Simply in the future after her victory, she advised The Impartial that she had thrown herself into her new position and had already begun to hold out her new duties – regardless of having to sit down exams subsequent week.
“I wasn’t anticipating to win because it was fairly a brief marketing campaign so I used to be feeling very overwhelmed when it occurred,” she stated.
“My priorities as a councillor are supporting the group – particularly those that are probably the most deprived.”
At solely 18-years-and-six-months-old {the teenager} stated she is the youngest sitting Labour councillor and maybe the youngest throughout all events.
She hopes to encourage extra younger individuals to enter politics and urges them to try for achievement.
Her political journey started when she was simply ten years outdated when she would attend protests together with her household.
She then went on to affix the Labour get together in 2020 aged simply 14.
She advised The Impartial: “It wasn’t till final yr that I made a decision that that is the best time [to get more involved]. Austerity was on the rise, we have been near having a recession and I assumed I wished to be a part of this variation.”
Talking of when she determined to run as a candidate for councillor: “Individuals have been very supportive, a variety of my pals stated that is so good that you just’re going into politics and following goals.”
Ms Blakemore-Creedon’s win was one in every of many for the Labour Celebration on this week’s native elections because the Conservatives confronted surprising blows.
Rishi Sunak suffered horrible losses in council elections because the Conservatives misplaced greater than 400 councillors and management of ten councils.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan has secured a 3rd time period as Mayor of London beating Conservative Susan Corridor on Saturday.
Mr Khan secured simply over 1,088,000 votes to be re-elected London Mayor, a majority of some 275,000 over Conservative rival Susan Corridor, who secured just below 813,000 votes.
Labour additionally claimed victory within the West Midlands mayoral election beating Conservative candidate Andy Avenue in a good race.
The newly elected mayor, Richard Parker, secured a majority towards his opponent who has served two phrases and held workplace since 2017.