Some pundits dismissed Labour's victory in Selby and Ainsty last year as a simple by-election protest against the Conservatives rather than any sea change in North Yorkshire.
This month we saw something far more surprising when the York and North Yorkshire mayoral election returned a Labour mayor. Despite Labour's lead coming predominantly from York voters, the party was broadly neck-and-neck with the Conservatives in the rest of North Yorkshire, an area where it failed to win a single seat in 2019.
'And it does seem that that energy, that desire to do things differently, has kind of carried over over those months to the North Yorkshire mayoral contest, and it means that we've been winning in places that we never thought possible. 'I think it's an enormous endorsement of where the Labour Party has got to and how much we've changed since 2019.
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