{"id":45485,"date":"2023-07-17T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/17\/north-of-tyne-mayor-jamie-driscoll-on-leaving-labour-to-be-independent\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:31:53","slug":"north-of-tyne-mayor-jamie-driscoll-on-leaving-labour-to-be-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=45485","title":{"rendered":"North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on leaving Labour to be independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll said being &#8220;independently-minded&#8221; was behind him not being selected to stand for Labour in the new position of mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Driscoll was elected in 2019 as the North of Tyne mayor for the party, but quit the party when he was not selected for the role covering a larger area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Driscoll told the BBC&#8217;s Iain Watson he had been urged by Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and independent politicians to run for the new job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-tyne-66225028\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Jamie Driscoll: North of Tyne mayor quits Labour party<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-66227133?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll said being &#8220;independently-minded&#8221; was behind him not being selected to stand for Labour in the new position of mayor of the North East &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}