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3:57 PM May 12, 2021
Dr Nik Johnson arrives in Ely today for first day at work as Cambridgeshire and Peterborough directly elected mayor.
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It was Labour prime minister Harold Wilson who is widely attributed with the phrase ‘a week is a long time in politics’.
That thought may have been somewhere today in the mind of Dr Nik Johnson, Labour’s surprise victor to become Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Dr Johnson arrived in Ely for his first day in the mayor’s office – a baptism of fire since his election success last Saturday.
Yesterday he wound up duties, for now, at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, colleagues clapping him as he left to begin his new political adventure.
Julian Makey
Nik Johnson is the new Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
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New Labour regional mayor Dr Nik Johnson will start work this week with an in-depth review of which projects will go ahead and which will be axed following his stunning surprise election victory on Saturday.
Dr Johnson, from Great Gransden, has vowed to work with all political sides after turning the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority red in a deep sea of Conservative blue by unseating the Tory incumbent James Palmer from one of the region’s key political roles.
A metro scheme costing billions of pounds, backed by Mr Palmer, which would have brought a rapid transit passenger system to Huntingdonshire, will be scrapped by the new mayor.