Nick Forbes

Councillor
Nick Forbes
Leader of Newcastle City Council
Assumed office
5th May 2011
Preceded by David Faulkner
Leader of the Labour Party on Newcastle City Council
Assumed office
May 2007
Leader of LGA Labour Group
Assumed office
6th January 2016
Preceded by Jim McMahon
Newcastle City Councillor
for Westgate
Moorside (2000-2004)
Assumed office
4th May 2000
Majority 966 (70.8%)
Personal details
Born Nicholas Iain Forbes
(1973-11-08) November 8, 1973
County Durham, United Kingdom[1][2][3]
Political party Labour

Nick Forbes (born November 8, 1973)[4] is the leader of Newcastle City Council. He is a member of the Labour Party and also leader of the Labour group on the City Council.[5]

Forbes became a councillor in May 2000, representing the Westgate part of the city, and went on to become Labour group leader in May 2007, and in 2011 became leader of the council following the 2011 local elections which saw the Liberal Democrats suffer heavy losses across the city, as well as nationally. He has been an extensive critic of the government's fiscal policy of cuts in funding to local government, and defended a policy of particularly cutting arts funding in the city in response.[6][7][8]

In February 2016, Forbes succeeded Jim McMahon as leader of Labour's Local Government Association.[9]

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