Three names are in the running to replace Nick Forbes as Newcastle’s Labour leader.
The long-serving council chief will be leaving city politics in May, announcing last month that he would not stand in May’s local elections after being deselected by party members in his Arthur’s Hill ward.
While Coun Forbes will stay on as council leader until the end of his term in May, he asked for a new Labour group leader in the city to be chosen before then to offer “clarity” to voters about the party’s direction.
