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Sir Robert Andrew "Robin" Wales (born 18 January 1955) is a Labour Party politician who has, since 2002, served as Mayor of the London Borough of Newham. He was Leader of Newham Council from 1995 to 2002 and a Councillor 1982–86; and 1992–95. Wales became the first Labour directly elected mayor in England in 2002. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2010. In May 2014 he won a fourth consecutive term. Under his leadership, improving the economic prosperity of Newham's residents has been a consistent priority. Wales made a number of pledges in the last ten years, including: a £5million investment in Workplace, an employment service; a housing allocations system based upon waiting time; a shared equity scheme to assist families get onto the property ladder; provision of free school meals for all Newham primary school children; a reading initiative which commits to a minimum 90 per cent literacy target by 2014; and a music education offer which gives all ten-year-olds the chance to learn a musical instrument with two years free tuition. In his role as mayor, Wales' visibility has arguably increased since London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, as more than sixty per cent of the Games took place in the London Borough of Newham. From the beginning the London 2012 bid team and its supporters, including Wales, pointed to the potential for building a successful Olympic Legacy as the driving force behind and the social imperative underpinning the campaign to bring the Games to east London. == Background and early political career == Robert Andrew Wales was born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, on 18 January 1955. He spent his childhood in Kilmarnock; attending Kilmarnock Academy. He went on to study at Glasgow University and graduated with a BSc in Chemistry. Wales joined the Labour party in 1970, aged 15. He served as Chair of Glasgow University Labour Club in 1975–76. He chaired Scottish Labour Students (SOLS) in 1976–77. SOLS members are renowned for their wresting back control of the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) from the Militant Tendency in 1975. Wales was part of the contingent of Scottish Labour Students which famously took the 'ice pick express' (a bus covered in posters of an ice pick – the weapon used to kill Trotsky) to the 1976 NOLS Conference at Lancaster University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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