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0 Have your say Meet the candidates in the Sheffield City region mayoral election DAVID ALLENEnglish Democrats:‘I am the only candidate addressing and representing the Leave argument”I was born in Doncaster, still live there and have been based there all my life. I am 53 years old and married with two daughters. I took an active role in politics after the English Democrats won the Doncaster mayoralty in 2009. I am interested in England’s history and its future. Historically myself and my family were apolitical but voted Labour, but being quietly patriotic and socially conservative felt change was necessary and possible.I have broad private-sector experience around Yorkshire and the UK. I think the role needs someone without an establishment mindset, in particular with regard to the convention of accepting the shoddy and undemocratically imposed devolutionary settlement for England. The other candidates standing are remain voters and/or unionists. That … [Read more...] about Meet the candidates in the Sheffield City region mayoral election on May 3

The political row about South Yorkshire’s elected Mayor is rumbling on after the Liberal Democrats added their criticism. Coun Shaffaq Mohammed, Leader of Sheffield Liberal Democrats, raised a question at full council about the fact that South Yorkshire has not automatically received millions of pounds of funding for transport.The Transforming Cities fund was handed out to areas with Metro Mayors but the Sheffield City Region did not automatically receive funding because the devolution deadlock means Mayor Dan Jarvis doesn’t have any powers.Six Mayoral areas have already been allocated half of the £1.7 billion fund. Coun Mohammed says Sheffield would have received £121 million but will now have to bid for a share with nine other authorities.Ahead of the meeting, Coun Mohammed said: “This is not just about their egos, this is the cost of the four Labour leaders not getting on with the devolution deal.“This is the failure of the council leaders and … [Read more...] about Lib Dem Leader joins criticism of Sheffield City Regional Mayor

0 Have your say Dan Jarvis today used his victory speech after being elected as Sheffield City Region’s mayor to call for a wider devolution deal for Yorkshire. The Labour MP acknowledged that seeking to combine the job with his role at Westminster had raised eyebrows, but insisted he could not “stand on the sidelines” while the future of the region was being decided.Voters across Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster elected Mr Jarvis to serve as the region’s first ‘metro mayor’.But the powers available to Mr Jarvis are far from being agreed with Government and the devolution process has been dogged by deep divisions.Dan Jarvis is Yorkshire’s first metro mayor - now comes the hard partBarnsley Central MP Mr Jarvis took 48 per cent of the vote in the first count and was elected mayor after the second count, which saw him comfortably defeat his Tory rival Ian Walker.In his victory speech he stressed the case for a wider … [Read more...] about Not the end of Yorkshire’s devolution story, but the beginning: Dan Jarvis looks ahead after becoming Sheffield City Region mayor

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Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung (front, second, left), head of the Vietnamese delegation, speaks at the senior officials’ meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum  The Vietnamese delegation to the events was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung. At the meetings, senior officials of ASEAN and partner countries shared the view that cooperation within the framework of ASEAN+3, the EAS and the ARF continued to obtain major outcomes. Building on the progress attained since the 20th founding anniversary of ASEAN+3 in 2017, the cooperation between ASEAN and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea has developed strongly, especially in economy, trade, finance, food, health care, education, and cultural and people-to-people exchange. In the face of regional and global economic changes, the countries agreed to further enhance regional economic connectivity, particularly by soon finalizing negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), make … [Read more...] about Officials of ASEAN, partner countries talk regional cooperation