Inside the giant poverty multibank with Gordon Brown

Plus: Stockton Council potentially sued by Thurrock Council

Welcome to the seventh edition of The Teesside Lead.

This week started with the news from Action Foundation, a North East charity which works with refugees and vulnerable migrants (who I ran the Great North Run for earlier this year), who said nearly two-thirds of refugees and asylum seekers in the region felt personally affected by the summer’s riots.

On…