Two more in the running for South Yorkshire mayoral race

Naveen Judah will stand under the Save Our NHS banner, while Sheffield City Councillor Rob Murphy is the Green Party candidate.

Mr Judah (pictured below), an accountant by trade is a current executive member of the National Health Action Party (NHAP) and former chair of Rotherham Healthwatch.

He said he believed in Nye Bevan’s NHS founding principles and was against the privatisation of the NHS.

Cllr Murphy (pictured below) will stand for the Greens provided the £8,000 required for the deposit and mailing to electors can be fundraised.

A heating engineer and owner of a small business, Cllr Murphy is a long-standing transport campaigner and has called for an end to the Sheffield tree dispute.

He said: “South Yorkshire needs change. It has been left behind other regions in the UK for far too long. 

“I will change the ‘Town Hall knows best’ culture here, and bring openess, fairness and real democracy into local government.

“On transport, support for small businesses and value for money, I have the skills experience and vision to get things done.”

Already in the running are Lib Dem Hannah Kitching and Yorkshire Party’s Mick Bower, while Labour members have until today to pick between Sheffield councillor Ben Curran and Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis.

The mayoral vote is on Thursday, May 3.