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AS all the seats on Durham County Council are up for election on Thursday, it is appropriate to look back at the council s most famous leader as he is the man who started off the Labour dominance that continues to this day - although will it continue after polling day? He, of course, was Peter Lee, and he became leader when Durham became the first county council in the country to be won by Labour in March 1919. “The coup was nearly as surprising to Labour as it was to the moderates,” said The Northern Echo in a five-day profile of Mr Lee published in 1934. Suddenly, said the Echo, Labour had to switch from being union agitators into council decision makers, yet most of the newly elected councillors had never sat on a committee, but now they had to fill a cabinet.