内容摘要：Liberal Democrat Councillor Phil Gilchrist said all members needed to work together as the authority faced a serious situation.

Liberal Democrat Councillor Phil Gilchrist said all members needed to work together as the authority faced a serious situation.

Businesses were "glad to see real investments in different industries", he said.South Tyneside and Sunderland Green Party campaigner, Rachel Featherstone, said she welcomed additional investment but was also worried about who would ultimately benefit.

"Jobs in the North East are always a good thing but we have concerns that actually this money will end up in the offshore accounts of multinationals and shareholders and not be invested back into our communities," she said."We seem to be a bit of a leaky bucket here in the UK, our tax money goes into private companies and it goes out of the country."Like her political heroine Margaret Thatcher, Kemi Badenoch - who is the new Conservative leader - divides opinion even within her own party.

Her robust views, "anti-woke" values and no-nonsense style have made her a darling of the Conservative right and the party's grassroots and they have chosen her over fellow right-winger Robert Jenrick.As the first black woman to lead a major UK political party she has made history, but she is no fan of identity politics and is not likely to make much of that as she sets to work on the formidable task of restoring her party's battered fortunes.

The former business secretary's analysis of what went wrong for the Conservatives at the general election is that they "talked right, but governed left", and need to "stop acting like Labour" to win back power.

It is a pledge she put at the heart of her Tory leadership campaign, which focused on changing the underlying mindset of the British state rather than setting out detailed policies."The council's new administration will be prioritising work to put in place a cohesive and robust Local Plan for our area to protect our communities from inappropriate development."

Since the appeal, the councila separate warehousing appeal for land next to Bell Plantation in Towcester.

Planning officers said the sites had "very significant crossover" and that the reasons for refusal were no longer sustainable when looking at the DHL appeal result.proved a popular read this week.