Leicester councillor targets mayoral role in bid to scrap it

Rita Patel will run as an independent mayoral candidate after being suspended from the Labour Party

Local Democracy Reporting ServiceShe said: "I resigned from the executive because I was unhappy and I wanted the freedom to be able to talk to people and start engaging them in discussion and debate - and I didn't feel I could do that on the executive.

"What that said to me was it's time for a change, we need to debate and look at where our priorities lie."

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