Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate on way to London, Birmingham, to share Games insights

FRESH from handing over the Commonwealth Games flag to new host city Birmingham, Mayor Tom Tate is following it over to the UK.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales with Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

MAYOR Tom Tate will be among the first Australian councillors ever to speak at a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting during a visit to London this week.

Cr Tate will speak at the Commonwealth Business Forum, sharing his insights into leading a Commonwealth Games host city.

“I’ll be sharing the legacy of hosting the Games and how we focused, not just on the sport economy, but the broader economy,” he said.

The Mayor will then head to 2022 host city Birmingham, which received the Games federation flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony.

Chairman of Commonwealth Games England, Ian Metcalfe hands the Commonwealth Games Federation Flag to Mayor of the City of Birmingham, Councillor Anne Underwood during the closing ceremony.

“I’ll let them know that any (intellectual properties) that we have we can correlate with them,” he said.

“We handed the flag over and that’s not just a gesture, we want to help make sure their Games are successful too.”

Mayor Tom Tate at Trade 2018. Picture: Glenn Hampson

Cr Tate said the Gold Coast’s Trade 2018 platform was so successful, he hoped Commonwealth House could become a permanent fixture in the city.