The UK government should further empower England’s metro mayors in order to unlock their full potential
The writer is a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics and was a member of RSA’s UK Urban Futures Commission Over the past 20 years, I’ve had the chance to observe a remarkable experiment in urban governance reform: England’s efforts to devolve more power to local decision makers through metro mayors, creating, in essence, a new layer of government. The rationale for English devolution remains as strong as ever.
Talk of a “devolution revolution” is both encouraging and worrisome. National leaders have defined this in exceedingly narrow terms, focusing on the delivery of objectives set by national government and funding divided by departmental area. This is a truncated vision that makes localities just another arm of national agencies. True devolution must go further in three ways. First, the devolution of fiscal powers needs to accompany the direct election of mayors.
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