{"id":304782,"date":"2025-07-30T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304782\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:23:11","slug":"manchester-councillor-suspended-from-labour-party-following-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304782\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester councillor suspended from Labour Party following complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party has not confirmed why Coun Bano has been suspended, saying it will \u2018investigate\u2019 complaints<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_1-1jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Manchester councillor has been suspended from the Labour Party following complaints from members, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Local Democracy Reporting Service understands Councillor Muqaddasah Bano has been administratively suspended from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/labour-party\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The party has not confirmed why Coun Bano has been suspended, saying it will \u2018investigate\u2019 complaints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/labour-party\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Party<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cThe Party does not comment on internal party matters and any complaints from Party members are investigated in line with our rules and procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Although Coun Bano is no longer a sitting Labour councillor, she remains on the council as a representative for south Manchester suburb, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/whalley-range\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Whalley Range<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It\u2019s unknown when Coun Bano was suspended, but Manchester City Council\u2019s website listed her as an \u2018independent\u2019 member on Tuesday, July 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Whalley Range councillor was first elected in 2021, and won re-election in 2024, securing 2,084 votes \u2014 far more than second-placed Green candidate Billie Nagle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Coun Bano sat on various licensing committees for the council, helping set licensing policy and reviewing licensing applications. She remains a member of the licensing committee, the LDRS understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Her fellow Whalley Range councillors, Coun Angeliki Stogia and Coun Aftab Razaq, both still represent Labour as they did when they won election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Coun Muqaddasah Bano was contacted for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The party has not confirmed why Coun Bano has been suspended, saying it will \u2018investigate\u2019 complaints A Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,528,2465,8828,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-labour-party","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-council","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944056536192979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}