Yesterday I was proud to be a Cabinet member on Durham County Council. We have stuck to our promise made at the election and will be reopening the DLI. However we are going much further and will be increasing the internal floor space by 96%, providing a cafe and restaurant and significant dedicated DLI exhibition space along with a World Class Art Gallery and extensive improvements to the external area too.

We are righting a terrible wrong inflicted on our County by Labour when they were running the Council and I’m delighted that my Lib Dem colleagues and I have been an instrumental part of bringing this forward with our colleagues in the Joint Administration running the Council.