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2024 North East Mayoral Election
The 2024 North East mayoral election was held on 2 May 2024 to elect the first mayor of the North East, a role created under the North East devolution deal announced in 2022. The election took place the same day as council elections within the region, as well as local elections across England and Wales. The winner was Kim McGuinness of the Labour and Co-operative Party, with independent candidate Jamie Driscoll, who had been the Labour North of Tyne elected mayor before leaving the party to contest the election, in second place. Background The North East Mayoral Combined Authority is due to come into existence four days after this election, on 7 May 2024. The authority will replace the North of Tyne Mayoral Combined Authority and the North East Combined Authority. The mayoral combined authority has a budget and powers relating to growth, adult education and skills, housing and regeneration. Electoral system While previous mayoral elections in the United Kingdom hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim McGuinness
Cara Kim McGuinness (born March 1985) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Northumbria since 2019 and she was re-elected in 2021. Early life and career McGuinness was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Gosforth High School. In 2006 she graduated from Newcastle University where she studied History. Prior to entering politics McGuinness worked professionally in a number of sectors including finance, universities and charities. McGuinness was elected to represent the Lemington ward on Newcastle City Council in 2015, before joining the authority's cabinet in 2016 as executive member for culture, sport and public health. McGuinness became the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner in a by-election on 18 July 2019, succeeding Dame Vera Baird and the acting commissioner, Ruth Durham, following Baird leaving the role to become Victims' Commissioner The office of the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyne And Wear Metro
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear). The network opened in stages from August 1980 and now serves a total of 60 stations, with two lines covering of track. The Metro can be accessed from a mixture of under ground and above ground stations. It has been described as the "first modern light rail system in the United Kingdom". The system is currently owned and operated by the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (branded as Nexus), thus is fully under public ownership and operation. In 2018–19, an estimated 36.4million passenger journeys were made on the Metro, making it the third-most used light rail network in the United Kingdom after London's Docklands Light Railway (121.8million passenger journeys) and Manchester Metrolink (43.7million passenger journeys). The initial Tyne and Wear Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brannen
Paul Brannen (born 13 September 1962) is a British Labour Party politician. He is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England region: he was elected in 2014 and lost his seat in 2019. Early life Brannen was brought up in Tyneside, North East England. He attended the University of Leeds, where he studied theology and religious studies. Being involved in student politics, he became President of the Leeds University Union. Brannen also holds an MBA from Durham University Business School. Political career and activism After university, Brannen worked for the Anti-Apartheid Movement, leading the campaign against executions by the apartheid government in South Africa. He famously interrupted a press conference being held by Mike Gatting to announce his plans to lead a rebel cricket tour to South Africa in breach of the international sporting boycott. He later moved to Christian Aid, where he led campaigns on poverty and, more recently, climate cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
