Hi everyone and welcome to Uciss Itel. And this week we have a special episode, which is the recording of a live in-conversation event that I held a couple of days ago with Tracy Brabyn, the mayor of West Yorkshire.

During our chat, we touched on leveling up, the state of the Labour Party, and crucially, whether she prefers Greggs or Pratt.

Have a listen and I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for wasting the nice weather, might be going to an indoor event.

My name's Arnhman. I'm head of an organisation called UK and a changing Europe.

And in case you didn't know, UK and a change in Europe is a network of academics. And what we try and do is bring facts and evidence to public debate.

So try and make sure that whatever your views are on anything,

you've got some concrete information to base your decisions on. And the one thing we ask of you,

in return for the gallons of cheap wine we provide a view this evening, is go have a look at

our website, sign up for our newsletter if you can. We're keen to do loads more stuff outside of

London. So I'd be very keen to know if there's an appetite, I mean, particularly in this part of the world, because this is the part

of the world I come from, but just, you know, people have said to us, oh, people won't turn

up for stuff outside of London, you're wasting your time. And actually, I'd be just keen to know

from you afterwards whether you think that's true or whether there is an appetite. But I don't really need

to introduce Tracy to you in the room, I don't suppose, but for those watching online, this is Tracy

Brabant, the elected mayor of West Yorkshire, formerly MP4, Batley and Spent. And prior to that,

a very successful actress and screenwriter. Tracy, thank you for doing this.

It's an absolute pleasure.

Great to be here.

So, I mean, there are three or four sort of broad areas I want to cover.

The first of which, I suppose, given your role as a Metro Mayor, is, first, I suppose,

what are Metro Mayor's for?

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