It’s official. The North East’s multi-billion pound devolution deal is done, the legislation has passed through Parliament.
Mayor to be elected on May 2 to head a new North East Mayoral Combined Authority covering Northumberland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear.
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Council leaders say this is the ‘end of a long and hard-fought journey’.
Negotiations over a devo deal have been going on for a decade, and previously collapsed in 2016 - causing a political split in the region that saw councils north of the Tyne breakaway to form
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