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Lord Ben Houchen with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Teesside following his re-election as Tees Valley Mayor, May 3, 2024
LABOUR saw off a strong challenge from independent left candidate Jamie Driscoll to win the new North East regional mayoralty.
Kim McGuiness secured the post with slim majorities in all areas of the region’s largest city, Newcastle.
She won 185,051 votes to Mr Driscoll’s 126,652, or 41 per cent to 28 per cent, with the Tories a distant third.
ANYA COOK reports from the Newcastle citizens’ assembly, where over 240 people gathered to create a people’s manifesto ahead of next year’s local elections – part of former mayor Jamie Driscoll’s Majority movement
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
