From The First Day

Under my leadership every town and every village in County Durham will be part of the Total Transport Network from the first day it’s set up.

Durham joined the devolution deal late, after the LibDem led coalition explored a county devolution deal. Durham will benefit in the next capital funding round, and immediately from the bus improvement money. Durham will be a major beneficiary from reopening the Leamside Line. Under my leadership Durham’s transport will fully integrate with the rest of the North East without any delay.

If Durham had struck a county deal instead of joining the North East, there would be no transport money now or later, just as there isn’t in Cornwall or North Yorkshire’s county deals.

That emphasis is in the original. And there is plenty more where that came from. Jamie Driscoll is still doing the "Labour and Co-operative" thing, which rather naughtily makes his site look like an official publication of those parties. But he is not on the shortlist. Yet he is obviously on the ballot paper. Come on, we have to do this.