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Who guards the Metro Kings?
Summer reading… before you head to the sun lounger…
Our Metro mayors’ super powers are soon to be turbocharged. A new breed of political celebrity has been born with some Labour Mayors enjoying media profiles and influencer status beyond the dreams of many a government minister. This is probably healthy for democracy and for Labour’s street cred in some areas but with more powered-up, full-fat Mayors on the horizon who is going to be left in charge of these Metro Kings?
What do Mayors want?
Whilst Mayors have the potential to deliver great things and real change, that doesn’t mean things can’t go wrong. It surely cannot be sustainable in the long term for Metro Mayors to be solely accountable to a Secretary of State? For the Government’s transformational Devolution Bill to succeed it must give some thought for how it plans to tick the accountability box - something which is currently missing from the list.