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Jamie Driscoll
Jamie Driscoll (born April 1970) is a British politician who served as the metro mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority from 2019 to 2024. He represented Labour until June 2023 and then became an independent. He was previously a Labour councillor on Newcastle City Council for the Monument ward from 2018 to 2019 and has been a Green Party councillor for the same ward since 2026.
Driscoll founded Majority in 2024. He was one of the directors of Your Party's operating company, but resigned in October 2025 following a financial dispute amongst the party's founders. He joined the Green Party of England and Wales in December 2025.
Driscoll was born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire in 1970. His father was a tank driver in the British army before becoming a shift worker at Imperial Chemical Industries, while his mother was a youth worker and a union shop steward who served as a women's officer for Cleveland County Council and founded the first women's refuge from domestic violence in Middlesbrough. Driscoll stated that his politics was influenced by his mother. He has three siblings: an older brother who served in the Royal Navy; a sister who was a healthcare assistant for the NHS; and a younger brother Jon, who is a football commentator, podcaster and author of The Fifty: Football's Most Influential Players, and Get it Kicked! The Battle for the Soul of English Football.[citation needed]
Driscoll left school at 16. He worked as a nurse at the University Hospital of Hartlepool, at a plumbing factory, and as a trainee engineer making breathing apparatus in Blyth, Northumberland, among other jobs. At the age of 22, he secured a grant to study engineering part-time at Northumbria University, which he combined with work as a nightclub bouncer.
After university, Driscoll worked as a project engineer in the electronics and information technology sector, and oversaw large company integrations. He became a manager and company director for a software development firm, and after selling the business he dedicated himself to political activity while homeschooling his children. He was a jiu-jitsu instructor for twenty years before retiring in 2018, and earned wine knowledge qualifications.
Driscoll joined the Labour Party in 1985, and the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1986. He later switched to Unite the Union. He was an organiser for the Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association, formed in 1983.
In 2015, he campaigned for Ed Miliband in Doncaster North during the 2015 general election and for Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour Party leadership bid. Prior to Corbyn's election, Driscoll acted as his bodyguard during a visit to the north east of England. After Corbyn's victory, Driscoll started the Newcastle branch of Momentum, trained activists and helped organise Momentum's inaugural national conference, Building to Win, in Birmingham in March 2017. In January 2018, he founded Pits & Politics Festivals Ltd, and in July 2018 hosted the first People, Pits and Politics festival in the days preceding the Durham Miners' Gala; the event, sponsored by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), featured Clive Lewis MP, Ken Loach, Paul Mason and Hilary Wainwright as speakers.
He was elected to Newcastle City Council in the May 2018 elections to represent Monument ward. He was a member of the campaigning group and the chair of the Newcastle branch of Momentum. He also served as branch secretary of the Labour Party in the East Gosforth ward.
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Jamie Driscoll
Jamie Driscoll (born April 1970) is a British politician who served as the metro mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority from 2019 to 2024. He represented Labour until June 2023 and then became an independent. He was previously a Labour councillor on Newcastle City Council for the Monument ward from 2018 to 2019 and has been a Green Party councillor for the same ward since 2026.
Driscoll founded Majority in 2024. He was one of the directors of Your Party's operating company, but resigned in October 2025 following a financial dispute amongst the party's founders. He joined the Green Party of England and Wales in December 2025.
Driscoll was born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire in 1970. His father was a tank driver in the British army before becoming a shift worker at Imperial Chemical Industries, while his mother was a youth worker and a union shop steward who served as a women's officer for Cleveland County Council and founded the first women's refuge from domestic violence in Middlesbrough. Driscoll stated that his politics was influenced by his mother. He has three siblings: an older brother who served in the Royal Navy; a sister who was a healthcare assistant for the NHS; and a younger brother Jon, who is a football commentator, podcaster and author of The Fifty: Football's Most Influential Players, and Get it Kicked! The Battle for the Soul of English Football.[citation needed]
Driscoll left school at 16. He worked as a nurse at the University Hospital of Hartlepool, at a plumbing factory, and as a trainee engineer making breathing apparatus in Blyth, Northumberland, among other jobs. At the age of 22, he secured a grant to study engineering part-time at Northumbria University, which he combined with work as a nightclub bouncer.
After university, Driscoll worked as a project engineer in the electronics and information technology sector, and oversaw large company integrations. He became a manager and company director for a software development firm, and after selling the business he dedicated himself to political activity while homeschooling his children. He was a jiu-jitsu instructor for twenty years before retiring in 2018, and earned wine knowledge qualifications.
Driscoll joined the Labour Party in 1985, and the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1986. He later switched to Unite the Union. He was an organiser for the Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association, formed in 1983.
In 2015, he campaigned for Ed Miliband in Doncaster North during the 2015 general election and for Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour Party leadership bid. Prior to Corbyn's election, Driscoll acted as his bodyguard during a visit to the north east of England. After Corbyn's victory, Driscoll started the Newcastle branch of Momentum, trained activists and helped organise Momentum's inaugural national conference, Building to Win, in Birmingham in March 2017. In January 2018, he founded Pits & Politics Festivals Ltd, and in July 2018 hosted the first People, Pits and Politics festival in the days preceding the Durham Miners' Gala; the event, sponsored by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), featured Clive Lewis MP, Ken Loach, Paul Mason and Hilary Wainwright as speakers.
He was elected to Newcastle City Council in the May 2018 elections to represent Monument ward. He was a member of the campaigning group and the chair of the Newcastle branch of Momentum. He also served as branch secretary of the Labour Party in the East Gosforth ward.