The Northern Agenda

Election special: who wants to be mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire?

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Rob Parsons hosts a special mayoral hustings edition of The Northern Agenda podcast, brought to you from the home of the Hull Daily Mail and Hull Live.

We are just a few days away from finding out who is going to be chosen by voters for a job that's never existed before, but could have a huge impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people north of the River Humber. 

After May 1's elections, the seven metro mayors across the North - the likes of Andy Burnham and Ben Houchen - will be joined by one representing Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire, a patch representing 600,000 people.

Whoever gets in next week will have a £400m long-term investment fund and powers over education, housing and transport to help make life better for the region's 600,000 population.

With the help of questions from Hull Daily Mail readers, Rob Parsons quizzes five of the six candidates to be mayor: Reform UK's Luke Campbell, Liberal Democrat Mike Ross, Conservative Anne Handley, Labour's Margaret Pinder and the Yorkshire Party's Rowan Halstead.

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