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Caron Lindsay

Ed Davey turns DJ to support Mike Ross in Hull

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 30th April 2025 - 9:14 am

If you do nothing else in the next couple of days, please try and help Mike Ross become Mayor in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Ed Davey has done his bit by visiting the Beats Bus in Hull earlier this week.

Mike Ross really does look like he is living his best life. Ed doesn’t maybe look so comfortable, but as always he is willing to give it a go.

Ed told Hull Live:

“This is a serious post with a serious budget and serious objectives, not least to sort out the transport problems of Hull and East Yorkshire and we need someone who’s got that clout and Mike already has it. I think we can win and Mike will be a fantastic first Mayor for this area,” adding that Mike is a “big name” with “huge experience.”

I really want Mike to win on Thursday. Last Summer I spent two weeks in Hull. It was a really tough and challenging time but every single person I met in Hull was so friendly and so kind and willing to help. The city itself is absolutely gorgeous and you can see the benefit of having a Liberal Democrat Council committed to serving the city and getting stuff done.

I was pretty heartbroken to see rioters in the same spots where I had been just days before. Reform is really stoking up divisions and making people angry while Lib Dems actually do things to improve their lives. I suspect that many people who are disappointed with the Conservatives and Labour will be lending their vote to Mike, who is best placed to stop Reform.

This is what Mike wants to achieve if he becomes Mayor:

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Alisha Lewis

Lib Dem councillors – the thin orange line between Britain and the harsh effects of Brexit

By Alisha Lewis | Mon 3rd February 2020 - 9:40 am

We fought hard, we won where we could, but lost where it mattered. Brexit is on the doorstep.

And that’s where we should be too.

A wise man once addressed the European Parliament in the wake of our most successful European elections ever and told us that Brexit is not inevitable. And while that may not be as true as it once was, the most devastating consequences of Brexit for our communities are not as inevitable as they may feel sitting here in the crushing aftermath of a truly momentous step back for Britain.

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The Voice

Lib Dem Jeremy Wilcock selected to fight Prescott seat

By The Voice | Wed 8th July 2009 - 7:12 pm

The trips-off-your-tongue ThisIsHullandEastRiding.co.uk reports:

LIBERAL Democrat campaigner Jeremy Wilcock has been chosen to contest John Prescott’s seat at the next General Election. The former Deputy Prime Minister is retiring from the House of Commons at the next election after representing Hull East since 1970.

In the 2005 election vote Mr Prescott won with a reduced majority of 11,747 – down almost 3,600 on the previous General Election. Four years ago, the Lib Dems finished second with their candidate Andy Sloan increasing his party’s share of the vote. …

However, since 2005 the Lib Dems have established a comfortable overall majority on

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