Reform UK holds 49 of the 62 seats and has named Hayley Coles. Seven of eight times, an English council elected the leader its ruling group named, and once that person pulled out before the vote.
A jury found him guilty of nine counts of fraud and four of tax evasion. In three of seven past sentences of councillors in England and Wales for cheating public money, the court sent them straight to prison.
Ministers sent inspectors into Tees Valley Combined Authority, the body led by mayor Ben Houchen. Six of ten times ministers kept the first deadline of such an inspection, and four times they extended it.
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