Phil Kelly | |
Office: | Mayor of Islington |
Term Start: | 12 May 2011 |
Term End: | 10 May 2012 |
Deputy: | Jilani Chowdhury |
Predecessor: | Mouna Hamitouche |
Successor: | Jilani Chowdhury |
Office1: | Islington Borough Councillor for Finsbury Park Ward |
Term Start1: | 4 May 2006 |
Term End1: | 22 May 2014 |
Predecessor1: | Richard Steer |
Successor1: | Gary Heather |
Office2: | Islington Borough Councillor for Hillmarton Ward |
Term Start2: | 3 May 1990 |
Term End2: | 7 May 1998 |
Successor2: | Edward Featherstone |
Office3: | Editor of Tribune |
Term Start3: | 1987 |
Term End3: | 1991 |
Predecessor3: | Nigel Williamson |
Successor3: | Paul Anderson |
Office4: | Islington Borough Councillor for Canonbury East |
Term Start4: | October 1984 |
Term End4: | 8 May 1986 |
Birth Date: | 1946 |
Birth Place: | Wigan, Lancashire, England |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Labour |
Alma Mater: | Leeds University |
Profession: | Journalist |
Phil Kelly (born 1946) is an English journalist.
Born in Wigan and educated at St Mary's College Crosby and Leeds University, Kelly worked on Time Out and the Leveller in the 1970s and joined Tribune in the mid-1980s, working as a reporter and then news editor before becoming editor (1987–1991).
Kelly subsequently worked as an aide to the Labour MP, Michael Meacher. He was a Labour Islington councillor in 1984-86 and 1990–98, latterly as the council's deputy leader.[1] He was re-elected to the Council in 2006.
He then became a partner at public affairs consultants Butler Kelly Ltd.[2]