John Stevenson Set to Take Over NRG
The promotion of Jake Berry to Tory Celebration Chairman has created an influence vacuum in one of many Celebration’s most influential backbench caucuses. The Northern Analysis Group has been key in holding the federal government to account on levelling up, preventing for Northern freedom throughout lockdown and extra Treasury help through the pandemic. Berry isn’t the one outstanding NRG determine Truss elevated to ministerial workplace; Dehenna Davison, the 2019 MP for Bishop Aukland, was appointed as a Levelling Up Minister final week.
Amongst sturdy competitors, Carlisle MP John Stevenson has come out on prime to exchange Berry as NRG chairman, topic to an AGM due after convention. Stevenson says he’s “very proud to be the NRG Chairman, throughout this important interval for the North.” Will the NRG proceed being a thorn within the facet of the federal government, or be supportive now their man Berry’s on the within? Time will inform…
