There are now 12 metro mayors across England – London, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, South Yorkshire, Tees Valley, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, North East, East Midlands and York and North Yorkshire.
Explore our work on mayors, including answers to the most frequently-asked questions about metro mayors, a series of expert podcasts and events looking more closely at their role, their impact, and their future, and polling data looking at the public’s awareness of mayors and what they’ve achieved.
What are metro mayors and what do they do?
In anticipation of the mayoral elections, Centre for Cities has polled people across the largest mayoral areas. Explore our findings in this briefing.
We’ve all heard the cliché that ‘all politics is local’. But in England, it might be more accurate to say that ‘most politics is national’. In recent years, local elections for councils...
Last week, the Centre published a briefing on our mayoral polling. Most of the focus has been on areas with established mayors. However, three new Combined Authorities (CAs) are voting on mayors...
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by three people with insights into several upcoming 2024 Metro mayoral elections to find out more about the candidates and discuss some of the local issues...
Andrew Carter speaks to Paul Swinney and Anthony Breach about the growing influence of Metro mayors.
Metro mayors were more recognisable than local authority leaders and MPs in almost every place that has one, according to new public polling.
Join us to discuss the results of polling in nine of the places electing a metro mayor on May 2nd 2024.
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Join Centre for Cities and Core Cities UK for a look at how cities are increasingly cooperating at the international level.
Join us in Leeds for the launch of a new report on how cities can help the UK meet its net zero target.
Yesterday, the Government released its proposed reforms to the planning system. An important part of these plans is having Mayors develop and agree Spatial Development Strategies, as part of the...
This briefing sets out fiscally-neutral reforms for English local government and finance that will put councils on a firm financial footing, achieve greater fairness than the current system, and reward councils for helping grow the national economy.
The new Government is making planning reform and devolution a central part of its economic strategy. The previous Conservative Government made similar moves with the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act and the development of the metro mayors, but struggled to prioritise the same areas as a key goals for national economic policy. So will it be different this time?
The English devolution Bill should be seen as a prelude to bigger reforms that come later and make a big difference to economic growth.
Seven suggestions from Centre for Cities for what the new government should do to make an immediate difference and put policies in place to try and kick-start the UK’s flatlining economy
Andrew Carter is joined by Brian Groom to discuss his latest book, Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World.
Leading G7 economies are urban but the relative underperformance of the UK’s ‘secondary’ cities by comparison has created a yawning prosperity gap. British politicians love beating the...
Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney is joined by Ant Breach, Associate Director, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, Climbing the Summit: Big cities in the UK and the G7. How...