A by-election will be held after Bristol’s youngest city councillor announced she is standing down. Cllr Lily Fitzgibbon, who was just 18 when she was elected as one of the two new Green members for Bishopston & Ashley Down ward at the 2021 local elections, is moving away to be nearer her family.
The university student, who grew up in Bishopston, was a Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate organiser while still at school and helped arrange the Greta Thunberg protest on College Green in February 2020. She clashed with Labour mayor Marvin Rees at one of her first council meetings two months after being elected during a row over Bristol Airport ’s “greenwashing” claims.
Announcing her resignation from City Hall, Cllr Fitzgibbon said: “I’m moving away from Bristol to be closer to my family, but I’ll be very sad to leave this wonderful community. This hasn’t been an easy decision, and is not one I have taken lightly.
