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Jamie Driscoll Labour's First North of Tyne Mayor
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Jamie is now heading up and developing the North of Tyne Combined Authority, the regional body that allocates spending and will deliver on manifesto promises.
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Beyond the pomp & ceremony
Like any typical lad from the North East, I’d never been to the Guildhall before. It is deep within the City of London in the Financial District. The whole place oozes money. £millions change hands at the drop of a hat. And many of the problems I’m dealing with started here, their roots in financial […]
Good mental health underpins our individual and collective wellbeing
You’ll have seen it, perched on cliff tops next to the ancient Tynemouth Priory, the Tynemouth coastguard station. Decommissioned twenty years ago, it’s stood empty since. Now, thanks to the work of local women’s veterans’ organisation, Salute Her, a new life as a wellbeing centre for women veterans could be on the horizon. Paula from […]
Like Bond, let’s just get the job done.
When I was elected Mayor in 2019, I joined the group of Metro Mayors already in existence, and became ‘M9’. The first meeting was in London’s City Hall, where SPECTRE was filmed, doubling as villain C’s HQ. I was disappointed Sadiq Khan wasn’t stroking a white cat. ‘I’m straight out of a Bond movie’ I […]
Beyond the headlines in Brighton
It’s two years since I started writing this column in The Journal and The Chronicle. In that time we’ve had a general election, a global pandemic, a change in Labour leader, and Britain has left the EU. Then, as now, I’d just returned from Labour Conference in Brighton. And then, as now, the reality is […]
The backbone of our economy
Small businesses are the backbone of our local economy. Plumbers, hairdressers and beauticians, charity workers, arts professionals and creatives. In the North East they represent around half a million jobs. In fact, 95% of businesses in our region are micro-businesses, employing ten people or fewer. And, sadly, small firms often struggle to get the financial […]
