00:00Angela Rayne has set the tone actually. Obviously I've known her a long time from being an MP together.
00:05It's a very collaborative approach. They try to tease out with everybody what their passions were for their area.
00:16It was actually quite productive, yeah.
00:18We do the battles of politics out here. You have your quiet word in the ear to get your point across.
00:25But really we've got to have a collaborative approach where, I mean look we want funding don't we?
00:31I want funding for Greater Lincolnshire but I'm not afraid to challenge as well.
00:36I'll never be afraid to challenge but you know I want that investment.
00:39I don't want Lincolnshire to be passed by by not willing to work with the government to get money.
00:45Really constructive and interesting actually you know with mayors from all parties.
00:50We all take a place first rather than a party first approach and sharing challenges.
00:54It was yeah it was a really good day of discussions. We're all agreed that more devolution is the way to get more growth.
01:02Whatever the party is we're all taking that same approach place first and it kind of changes the way British politics works.
01:09You know at the national level in Westminster or Holyrood or Cardiff sometimes it's party first and then nothing gets done and people don't come together.
01:18In the mayoral role people approach things differently.
01:22A few days later they have to make a decision.
01:24In the mayoral role we've got the city has been done and people do change the law in the new
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