“It was real; and Sir Keir acknowledged again my win, saying that he was looking forward to working with me and that we should meet and talk very soon.
“And to be honest that is how I want to work – in cooperation with everybody to get this job done.”
Mayor Dr Johnson said: “Nobody knows more than I do the challenges that lay ahead.
“But for me that is precisely why I took up this role in the first place.
“Not because it will be easy, but because it’s a challenge that I genuinely feel I can commit to and do something for the people of Cambridgeshire.