Mayors from across the North have written to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak urging whoever ends up as Prime Minister to meet them and re-think the Government's cut-price rail plan for the region.
In a letter seen by The Northern Agenda politics newsletter, the five Labour mayors raised their concerns about the controversial Integrated Rail Plan and called on the winning candidate to meet with them to "agree a better way forward for the North".
The call from North of Tyne's Jamie Driscoll, Greater Manchester's Andy Burnham, Liverpool City Region's Steve Rotheram, West Yorkshire's Tracy Brabin and South Yorkshire's Oliver Coppard comes ahead of the two senior Tories' face-to-face debate in Leeds tomorrow (July 28).
