The Liberal Democrats are on the up. We are back as the third-largest party in Britain with a record number of MPs. We have gained councillors at every set of local elections since 2018. We have won, quite literally, from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, winning the trust, support and votes of people right across the country – but we have never won a metro mayoralty.
Metro mayors have a wide range of responsibilities, from improving the local economy, to infrastructure and strategic transport. It is vital we have liberal voices at this level of government. So far, every metro mayor elected has either been for either the Conservative or Labour Party.
This year, I need your help to change that.
This May sees the very first Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral election, which will create a metro mayor responsible for all of Hull and East Yorkshire. With your help, we can make sure that mayor is a Liberal Democrat mayor.
The Conservatives are in disarray. They have no councillors in Hull and took a battering at the last election to the East Riding council.
Across Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Liberal Democrats have the highest number of councillors and the highest combined vote share using the most recent local election results. We run Hull City Council and are the largest opposition group on East Riding Council. We stand as the only credible challengers to Labour in the region, with the Conservatives in disarray and the Greens lacking any local power base.
But we won’t win if we can’t out-campaign Labour. We won’t win if we don’t get our message out to voters. That’s why I am asking for your help and support.
We need to speak to as many voters as possible between now and polling day. Labour is piling in activists, not just from Hull and the East Riding, but from York, North Yorkshire, Leeds, and other cities across the county. They’re rattled and they know we can win, but we will only win if we can out-work them and speak to more voters across the region.
Can you help us win in Hull and East Yorkshire? Please contact me on [email protected].
Together, we can win this election and ensure Hull and East Yorkshire has the country’s first Liberal Democrat metro mayor.
* Mike Ross is the Leader of Hull City Council and will be the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Hull and East Yorkshire Metro Mayor election
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With great respect, and I mean that, given the sad and well publicised events in Hull Minster today, it may have been better to have postponed this article for a few days or so.
@David Raw – allow me to apologise for the timing. I was not aware that John Prescott’s funeral was happening today when I published Mike’s post. No disrespect meant at all. Incidentally the level of publicity was probably determined by geography – I had not noticed anything on the main BBC news site.
An interesting example of the political opportunities soon to be offered by the merging of unrelated areas to fit the numbers.
It’s very sad that the Liberal Democrat council in Hull under Mike Ross has decided to continue with the absurd plan open East Park to car traffic. The park has been much improved without cars. It is quieter and safer for children. The decision is baffling and frankly wrong.