Reform UK’s new mayors take centre stage: Nigel Farage’s troops join other regional leaders for talks with Angela Rayner… as Deputy PM warns ‘you have to deliver’
Reform UK’s newly-elected mayors joined other regional leaders in London today for talks with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Greater Lincolnshire mayor, and Luke Campbell, the Hull and East Yorkshire mayor, both attended the meeting alongside 12 other mayors.
It was the first time the Reform politicians had attended Ms Rayner’s ‘mayoral council’ since their stunning election victories at the beginning of this month.
Dame Andrea is a former Tory MP and ex-education minister who defected to Reform in November last year.
She secured a return to frontline politics by beating her former party by more than 40,000 votes to win the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty for Nigel Farage‘s outfit.
Hull-born Mr Campbell is a former professional boxer who won gold for Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics.
He was elected Hull and East Yorkshire mayor with a majority of almost 11,000 votes on 1 May.
At today’s meeting at Lancaster House, Ms Rayner warned Dame Andrea, Mr Campbell and other regional mayors they had to ‘deliver’ for local voters in their roles.
Reform UK’s newly-elected mayors joined other regional leaders in London today for talks with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner
It was the first time the Reform politicians had attended Ms Rayner’s ‘mayoral council’ since their stunning election victories at the beginning of this month
Luke Campbell is a former professional boxer who won gold for Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics. Dame Andrea Jenkyns is a former Tory MP and ex-education minister
Hull-born Mr Campbell was elected Hull and East Yorkshire mayor with a majority of almost 11,000 votes on 1 May
Both Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire are newly-created combined authorities.
According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government, the Deputy PM told local leaders they must be held to account as they take back control of decision-making.
She urged them to deliver on matters closest to voters’ hearts and play their part in the Labour Government’s ‘Plan for Change’.
Ms Rayner also stressed that, with increased power and resources, there would be increased responsibility and expectations for all mayors to deliver real results.
She said: ‘We are ripping up the long-standing ‘Whitehall knows best’ rhetoric that has for too long stifled growth with a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
‘That’s why we are driving forward deeper, strategic devolution, so mayors can make decisions that will actually deliver for their communities.
‘Deeper devolution isn’t about empty headline-grabbing promises, but doing the hard yards to make meaningful improvements to the day to day lives of working people in line with our Plan for Change.’
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Reform UK’s newly-elected mayors joined other regional leaders in London today for talks with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the Greater Lincolnshire mayor, and Luke Campbell, the Hull and East Yorkshire mayor, both attended the meeting alongside 12 other mayors.
It was the first time the Reform politicians had attended Ms Rayner’s ‘mayoral council’ since their stunning election victories at the beginning of this month.
Dame Andrea is a former Tory MP and ex-education minister who defected to Reform in November last year.
She secured a return to frontline politics by beating her former party by more than 40,000 votes to win the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty for Nigel Farage‘s outfit.
Hull-born Mr Campbell is a former professional boxer who won gold for Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics.
He was elected Hull and East Yorkshire mayor with a majority of almost 11,000 votes on 1 May.
At today’s meeting at Lancaster House, Ms Rayner warned Dame Andrea, Mr Campbell and other regional mayors they had to ‘deliver’ for local voters in their roles.
Reform UK’s newly-elected mayors joined other regional leaders in London today for talks with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner
It was the first time the Reform politicians had attended Ms Rayner’s ‘mayoral council’ since their stunning election victories at the beginning of this month
Luke Campbell is a former professional boxer who won gold for Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics. Dame Andrea Jenkyns is a former Tory MP and ex-education minister
Hull-born Mr Campbell was elected Hull and East Yorkshire mayor with a majority of almost 11,000 votes on 1 May
Both Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire are newly-created combined authorities.
According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government, the Deputy PM told local leaders they must be held to account as they take back control of decision-making.
She urged them to deliver on matters closest to voters’ hearts and play their part in the Labour Government’s ‘Plan for Change’.
Ms Rayner also stressed that, with increased power and resources, there would be increased responsibility and expectations for all mayors to deliver real results.
She said: ‘We are ripping up the long-standing ‘Whitehall knows best’ rhetoric that has for too long stifled growth with a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
‘That’s why we are driving forward deeper, strategic devolution, so mayors can make decisions that will actually deliver for their communities.
‘Deeper devolution isn’t about empty headline-grabbing promises, but doing the hard yards to make meaningful improvements to the day to day lives of working people in line with our Plan for Change.’
