How Newcastle City Council Beats Off Competition

I wasn't parachuted in it was an overwhelming vote from the members I think there was only one against. It's actually worth going back so there was a load of letters elected in 2017 Andy Burnham in Manchester Andy Street in in the west Midlands and that had broken down because there were all Labour councils at the time but they've been unable to agree. The north of time which is Newcastle and the north side of Northumber all worked at very huge geographic areaVery diverse had sort of risen from the ashes as it were out of that Nick Forbes was the leader of the castle council everyone expected him to be a shoo-in.