The left-wing North of Tyne Mayor mayor has lashed out as his former party, which described his comments as ‘offensive’.
North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll, who was blocked by Labour from running for another role in the region
Labour rebuked his comments as “completely unacceptable” and said they demonstrated why he was deemed unsuitable to be a candidate in Sir Keir Starmer’s party. “Cutting off all influence from constituencies and trade unions, things like that, like the American Democrats. It suits the people that are driving it, but I don’t think it suits the people of the North-East. That’s the real irony, isn’t it? It’s about devolution, taking power out of London. But London decides who people are allowed to vote for.”
A senior Labour source at the time linked the decision to the mayor sharing a panel with filmmaker Ken Loach, who was expelled from the party amid efforts to root out antisemitism from the party.“They’d been trying to do it for ages. The back story to this is that I won in 2019 and I wasn’t supposed to.”
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