A socialist regional mayor who has been blocked from being Labour’s representative to contest the north-east mayoralty has announced that he is resigning from the party to try to run as an independent candidate.
A socialist regional mayor who has been blocked from being Labour’s representative to contest the north-east mayoralty has announced that he is resigning from the party to try to run as an independent candidate.
I was listening to an interview with him on the radio earlier. Seems he was binned for pretty minor disagreements. Hopefully, he can make a go of it as an independent.