Tracy Brabin’s training with US billionaire Mike Bloomberg

How is this helping West Yorkshire?

Tracy Brabin and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg in London this week

In November it might have come as a bit of a shock to British taxpayers to see that Tracy Brabin, the Mayor of West Yorkshire, at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Brazil, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies:

Sadiq Khan, co-Chair of C40 Cities, headed up the conference and at least one of his £150k-per-year deputies was in attendance.

That is Mete Coban MBE, his Deputy Mayor for the Environment (who once faked a football career and racked up 40,000 air miles while working as Hackney Council’s Cabinet Member for the Environment):


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