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Caroline Jackson at Lancaster Castle (The Independent)
In a month of political drama – the Hartlepool by-election, the city mayor contests, the local lockdowns that never were – it was a moment that was all but ignored by much of the media.
When retired headteacher Caroline Jackson was elected leader of Lancaster City Council last week, it registered barely a ripple in Westminster.
Yet, amid the national focus on a collapsing ‘red wall’ and regional devolution, it may in fact be the grandmother-of-four’s rise to power in this small north west city that signals the start of a far more significant political shift.