Tributes paid to councillor who was ‘full of joy’
Tributes have been paid to a Leeds city councillor following her death.
Mahalia France-Mir represented the Moortown ward on Leeds City Council for more than three years, after being elected in 2022.
The Moortown Labour Party said she had died on Monday “following illness”, adding: “Our thoughts and prayers are with her family”.
Labour councillor Luke Farley, who represents the Burmantofts and Richmond Hill ward, said he was “heartbroken” by the news.
He added: “She was full of compassion and joy and dedicated to her ward of Moortown.
“She would always be the first person to volunteer to help.”
Ms France-Mir’s father, Arthur France, founded Leeds’ West Indian Carnival, which has been held in the city almost every summer since 1967.
Labour councillor Tom Hinchcliffe described France-Mir as a “wonderful and kind person who was so close to many of us in the Leeds Labour Group”.
He added: “She is going to be missed by so many in Moortown, Meanwood and across the city.”
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