Northumberland County councillor Guy Renner-Thompson is the third Conservative to declare.
A senior Northumberland councillor has entered the race to be the Conservative candidate for North East mayor.
The mayor will represent about two million people from Berwick to Barnard Castle, encompassing all of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham. "If we can make the people of the North East as wealthy as the rest of the country, that has to be the aim."he had considered running as an MP before deciding he did not want to leave his native North East."In my area, people have been evicted to make way for second homes and holiday lets. I've been involved in helping people stay in their communities."
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