Steve Bullock
Steve Bullock (born
1954) is the first
directly-elected mayor of the
London Borough of Lewisham (since
2002).
Born in
Redcar,
North Yorkshire, Bullock began his career as a van driver for
Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea Urban District Council in 1972. He later worked as a policy adviser under
Ken Livingstone at the
Greater London Council, as Chief Executive of Greenwich Community Health Council and as Head of the Labour Group Office at the
Local Government Association. Having served on the independent Commission for Local Democracy, he was a founder member of the
New Local Government Network.
Elected to the London Borough of Lewisham council in 1982, Bullock then went on to serve as Chair of Finance, Chair of Leisure, Deputy Leader, and Leader of the Council prior to standing down from the council in 1998. Following this, he served as Chair of University Hospital Lewisham
NHS Trust. Bullock's partner is Kris Hibbert, a former fellow councillor.
In 2001 he was elected to the Borough Council in a by-election before seeking the Labour nomination for the new post of elected mayor, having publicly supported the proposal (as chair of the local hospital trust) in the October referendum campaign. He was subsequently elected in the first Mayoral election.
He was re-elected in the May 2006 Lewisham Mayoral poll and became the Labour vice-chair of the
Association of London Government later that year.
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Lewisham Labour Group site
