There’s a bombshell poll showing we can win in the North East.
National media is covering polling in West Mids and Tees Valley? Why aren't they talking about the North East? Perhaps it doesn’t fit their narrative of Westminster party politics. Red vs Blue.

The people of the

Cheers Jamie Oliver for supporting our kids.
Children need to be healthy to learn, succeed and thrive. I’m looking forward to working together to make that happen.

Thanks to Mick Lynch, @RMTUnion and RMT North East Regional Council for their continued support. Solidarity.

I've realised that a photo used in a recent Tory Leaflet belongs to me. So unfortunately Liam Bones you'll be needing to pay for it's one time use. It'll take me a few days to calculate a suitable sum but thought fair to warn you that the figure may be £substantial.

Anyone in the north east I’d urge you to vote for Mayor Jamie Driscoll this May.

People are tired of political parties breaking their promises.
On May 2nd, you’re voting for a Mayor to lead the North East. You’re not electing a government or a council, you’re electing one person to manage a £6 billion budget.
This is about getting the right person in the job

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Brilliant pass it on!

Filming at Tynemouth Station this morning with ITV News Tyne Tees and Tom Sheldrick as part of their publicity for the North East Mayoral election. Remember, on May 2 it’s not a general election. This is about electing one person to serve the people of the #NorthEast . Elect a Mayor

My North of Tyne Combined Authority has created over 5k jobs. It was important to me that everybody benefitted from those opportunities.
Our Equality Assembly aimed to achieve that. People facing barriers of disability, race and gender told us what they needed. And it worked. We’ve seen a 60%

Where is the Free Speech! crowd? The Intellectual Dark Web group? The anti-snowflake folks? The anti-cancel culture movement?

Oh wait, none of that applies to Palestinians or critics of Israel.

I’ve had members from all parties telling me they’re voting for me, including Labour, Greens, Reform and Conservatives. Nobody is happy with the Westminster chaos that we’ve seen. People are looking for an independent leader who can shield the North East from all that.
People

Keeping children in poverty isn’t just immoral, it’s bad for the economy too. The good jobs of tomorrow, will not be taken by kids who are too hungry to learn today.

We’ve invested £4.3 million so far tackling child poverty and improving education in North of Tyne Combined Authority, the only

William Dalrymple Armenian POWs and detainees get exactly the same treatment in Azerbaijani prisons. There is no limit to human capacity for evil. #FreeArmenianPOWs

So Ms Zhukova what was it that first attracted you to the 92 year old billionaire Rupert Murdoch?
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Doctors in the last children's hospital functioning in Palestine say children are dying of malnutrition in their care

Children are being starved to death in hospital whilst the world watches

They can't eat platitudes, apologists words or religious beliefs.

Get them food now!

But in London, where transport is publically controlled, tube and bus fares are being frozen.
A vote for me as North East Mayor in May would let us take back control of our transport network. I’ll make travel free for under 18s and those in full time education and cap fares for

UK Politics is a mess. Where is the hope? Help me get elected as North East Mayor and we'll see another world is possible.
Please watch this, spread the word and take action 👉gofund.me/0f0f60ce

'Not the time' for a ceasefire says Biden. Britain, pathetically, immorally, abstains

Poverty isn't just morally wrong. It's bad for the economy. Kids with hungry bellies don't learn. People struggling with ill health can't work.
We need to listen to the people who know first hand about the effects of poverty and share ideas about how we tackle it.

Extraordinary response to our Empire Podcast Iranian Revolution Quartet with Ali Ansari:
last week we had an astonishing 630,000 downloads. This is really becoming a movement: so many people around the world wanting to understand the history they simply weren't taught at