Ex-Labour metro mayor and Your Party organiser Jamie Driscoll joins Greens

Driscoll said he had joined the Greens ‘because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people’. Photograph: Mark Pinder/The Guardian

Jamie Driscoll, the former Labour metro mayor for North of Tyne who later played a role setting up Your Party, has joined the Greens, the party has announced.

It comes two days after five Labour councillors in the north London borough of Brent defected to the Greens, saying they were disillusioned about the party’s direction under Keir Starmer.