elected mayors Articles

It took a few moments for the true absurdity of the announcement to sink in, but Michael Fallon's appointment as minister for Portsmouth last week ranks pretty highly in the pantheon of empty political gestures. The end of shipbuilding in England means that...

Cities don’t reflect the national economy – they are the national economy. If they perform badly, then rural areas and the rest of country are likely to underperform as well. Cuts to services are rightly grabbing the headlines, but it’s the overall trajectory of the...

When is a hustings not a hustings? Well, when the only declared candidate for the office in question – the Labour nomination for mayor of London – hasn’t been invited, and the matter at hand is an entirely different election. That said, while Progress’ latest event in...

This government never tires of saying that it was formed in a moment of economic crisis. Yet three-quarters of positive growth had then been secured. Now we teeter on the brink of an unprecedented triple-dip recession. The government decided, two years into their...