Harold Wilson famously said a week is a long time in politics – but my first week as Mayor has been all too short. It’s flashed past in a blur of facts and faces, media interviews, meet-and-greets, and the truly exciting detail of planning action for change with my new…

Congratulations to Dr Nik Johnson on winning the Cambridge and Peterborough Mayoral election.  A fabulous result. We always had faith in the strength of our message, our candidate and the voters of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Our election leaflets said that Labour can win here. Now we’ve been proved right and…

Labour’s candidate for Mayor condemns the decision and explains his plans to run a bus service for the public good. Bus users in Milton and beyond were left reeling today as Stagecoach suddenly announced that the Milton Park & Ride service will be suspended from next Monday 10th May. This…

Dr Nik Johnson angry as Palmer gives people false hope and hinders progress to reduce the housing crisis During the BBC Look East special yesterday ‘A Mayor for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’, Conservative candidate James Palmer claimed that he would be able to address the affordable housing crisis using his £100K…

Social workers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were given the backing of local Labour and Co-operative Party candidate Nik Johnson this week, in the lead up to the Mayoral election on 6 May. Nik Johnson outlined his ideas and plans for social work in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough should he be elected Mayor. “I want every single social worker and…

WHY I WILL NOT SUPPORT MAYOR PALMER’s CAM METRO PROJECT … Labour and Co-operative party mayoral candidate Dr Nik Johnson will call an immediate halt to the £4billion CAM Metro project if elected on May 6th. He dismissed the project as being a ‘white elephant’ and ‘a fool’s folly’. Dr Nik…