Jamie Driscoll is the current mayor for the North of Tyne He is standing as an independent after the Labour party decided not to shortlist him as their candidate. Mr Driscoll, 53, has been the ...

The former North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll will not be standing to be an MP in the upcoming General Election. Speaking prior to the election being called, Mr Driscoll told the Local Democracy ...

Ex-mayor Jamie Driscoll is launching a new movement aimed at creating a “progressive alliance” of political candidates. The ...

North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll called the decision "arbitrary and capricious". The move has been linked to Mr Driscoll's onstage appearance with film director and expelled Labour member Ken ...

Six Labour councillors on Newcastle City Council, including its former leader, have switched to become independents.

I did do that at the time.” Her main opponent for the newly-created North East mayorality was the left-wing North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll, who had been barred by Labour from running – a move ...

The former Labour Mayor of the now-defunct North of Tyne ... MPs to a debate on the party's first 100 days in Government. Jamie Driscoll, who quit the party in a row over the selection of the ...

Jamie Driscoll is mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority. Child poverty rates in the north-east have overtaken London, but the crisis is country-wide, writes the North of Tyne mayor.

LABOUR has lost control of Newcastle city council after six councillors quit the party in protest against Prime Minister Sir ...

Labour has been accused of delivering little backing for the North East region in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget as Chancellor.

But this time, the joke was on America. “I looked at Jamie and said, ‘Will you go on with me?’” Driscoll said. “He rolled his eyes.” This was her chance. Driscoll called the number and left a message ...