Manchester’s veteran town hall leader Sir Richard Leese will stand down from the top job at the start of December, the M.E.N.
can reveal. Sir Richard, who has been in charge for 25 years, will then step down from the council, on which he has represented Crumpsall since 1984, next spring ahead of May’s local elections.
Labour councillors were being informed of the decision this evening. READ MORE FROM JEN WILLIAMS Sir Richard told the M.E.N.
he had been mulling over the move for several years, but that a range of factors, not least the intensity of the job and a wish to spend more time with his young grandchildren, meant now felt right. "I feel very comfortable about it," he said.
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