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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.

Laying down some tracks today at The Beats Bus in Hull, a brilliant project helping young people find new opportunities. 🎧🎶 pic.twitter.com/J56844AJpa

— Ed Davey (@EdwardJDavey) April 28, 2025

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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Mark Pack writes: The biggest prize in May’s local elections

By Mark Pack | Mon 14th April 2025 - 10:52 am

There are hundreds of important prizes at stake for us in the May local elections.

Wards where we are standing our first candidate in years. Wards where winning would give us our first breakthrough in an area. Wards where winning would make us the main opposition on the council. Wards where winning could give us leadership of the council for the first time. Wards where winning would cement our record in power locally.

But perhaps the biggest prize at stake for the Liberal Democrats is one that has never been on offer before: the new Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayor.

It brings together two areas with impressive local Liberal Democrat teams: the Hull team that took power from Labour even while the Conservatives were in power in Downing Street, and the East Riding team that has ridden an impressive run of by-election wins to be a growing political force locally.

There is important political power at stake to improve the lives of residents in the area.

For the party more widely too there is the chance to show our relevance in northern England, to get a new Liberal Democrat in important local and regional media markets and to show how we can win against Labour.

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We can win in Hull and East Yorkshire. But only with your help

By Mike Ross | Wed 2nd April 2025 - 11:55 am

If you were at our recent Spring conference, you will hopefully have heard all about my campaign to become the first Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.

Last weekend, we were joined by Party President Mark Pack in Hessle, East Yorkshire, to formally launch our campaign for the mayoralty.

It was an honour to be joined by Lord Pack and by so many activists, both from across the region and further afield, such as Lord Shaffaq Mohammed and a team from Sheffield. We’ve also had a visit from Ed Davey and many front-bench MPs.

It’s clear the momentum is with us here, and it’s clear that local people want to send the Labour Government a message on 1st May.

But we must not be complacent. The region is vast, comprising the city of Hull with the mostly rural East Riding, which spans almost 2,500 square kilometres, with hundreds of thousands of people registered to speak to. We must deliver to and speak with as many people as possible, as many times as possible, between now and 1st May.