Ladbrokes makes Tory candidate odds-on favourite to win Peterborough and Cambridgeshire mayoral election

Bookies Ladbrokes have made the Conservative candidate the odds-on favourite to become Cambridgeshire's first elected mayor.
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East Cambs District Council leader James Palmer is 2/5 to win the vote in May and become the head of a new combined authority which will have hundreds of millions of pounds to spend on housing and to support economic growth.

Next on the list of favourites at 5/2 is the Cambridge city councillor Rod Cantrill, the Liberal Democrat candidate.

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Labour candidate Kevin Price, the deputy leader of Cambridge City Council, is priced at 16/1, followed by UKIP candidate Paul Bullen, the Cambridgeshire county councillor.

Propping up the list is independent Peter Dawe, the entrepreneur from Ely, at odds of 50/1, and Green Party candidate Julie Howell, the Peterborough parish councillor, who is 100/1 to become mayor.

A spokesperson for the Cantrill campaign said: “These odds clearly show that this election is a two-horse race between Rod and the Conservative candidate.

“Rod is starting today on the same odds that Sarah Olney started on before her recent by-election victory in Richmond Park.

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“Rod’s experience, knowledge and vision for our region show how he is exactly the right person to be the first mayor of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.”

Mr Dawe tweeted: “50/1 @Mayordawe I’ll take those odds.”