Former Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll has joined the Green Party.
Driscoll, who served five years as the elected North of Tyne mayor, described Britain as “a mess” and said the party, led by Zack Polanski, was “serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people”.
Originally elected mayor for Labour in 2019, he quit the party and ran as an independent in the 2024 North East mayoral election in which he finished second to Kim McGuinness, having raised more than £150,000 in donations for his campaign.
Polanski said: “This is another example of the Green surge sweeping across the country.”
