elected mayors Articles

Labour remains a long way from power nationally but next year should hopefully bring a group of new city leaders. What a shame, then, that each one will be male.   For a long time Labour has preached more than practised the idea of equality in who it selects to...

There is good news for the north-east of England this week, as its devolution deal – effectively paused since March – is back on track. Six of the seven members of the leadership board of the North-East Combined Authority (NECA) voted yesterday to support the...

Devolution has been in vogue since the Scottish independence referendum; local leaders seized their opportunity to demand more powers from Westminster and the response they got from both Tories and Labour was generally favourable. But the debate in England has been...

The coalition has an especially dismal record in the north of England. The number of young people on the dole for more than a year is up 62 per cent across the north of England, compared to a national increase of 25 per cent. Wages for working people in the north have...