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  1. Sep 15, 2016 · Council leader Sir Richard Leese – whose partnership with Bernstein since he was made chief executive in 1998 is unrivalled anywhere in government – admits there has to be more to his success...

  2. Jun 22, 2024 · Sir David Bernstein, then-chair of Manchester City, Sir Howard Bernstein and Sir Richard Leese. Sir Howard helped restore the self-belief of the former 'Cottonopolis'.

  3. Jun 22, 2024 · The city’s leaders, first under Graham Stringer and later Richard Leese, concluded that pragmatism — including dialogue with their Conservative opponents in Westminster — was essential to ...

  4. Jun 24, 2024 · Three years ago, I was writing a profile of Manchester’s leader Sir Richard Leese on the occasion of his retirement after 25 years. But in the calls for that piece, “Howard” was inescapable. Manchester had been ruled by a duopoly from the late 1990s — Leese the elected politician; Bernstein in charge of the professional bureaucracy ...

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  5. Sep 8, 2021 · Sir Richard Leese took even close friends and colleagues by surprise on Tuesday night by announcing he was to step down as leader of Manchester City Council in December, and would not stand for re-election in May as a councillor for Crumpsall. In so many ways it was a typical Leese.

  6. Jun 22, 2024 · Stringer, his finance chief and successor Richard Leese and chief whip Pat Karney, were all contemporaries from versions of the same North Manchester world, and they trusted him. That he was put in charge of the rebuild – promoted over the head of his immediate boss – proved the point.

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  8. Sir Richard Charles Leese CBE (born 21 April 1951) is a British politician who served as Leader of Manchester City Council from 1996 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party, he was Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 to 2021.