When one door closes, another opens. Is Grimsby's former MP now the most powerful woman in Hull?

                                         

Opportunity beckons for Lia Nici . . . again

HER  appointment as special advisor to the Mayor of Hull and East Riding represents a remarkable new watershed in the political career of Lia Nici

Before serving a term as Conservative MP for Great Grimsby, Ms Nici was a Scartho ward councillor on North East Lincolnshire Council.

Now a member of Reform UK, she knows not only the whereabouts of the levers of political decision-making - in both national and local government - but also how to pull them.

Hull's mayor  is former champion boxer Luke Campbell whose current experience of political ringcraft is inevitably of limited extent.

So, although she will be wary of overstepping the mark, Ms Nici could show her boss how to land a few knockout blows for the North Bank in battles ahead.