After the recent election on 1st May 2025 there are now 14 combined authority 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, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, West of England, Hull and East Yorkshire and Greater Lincolnshire.
Explore our work on mayors, including 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.
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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Clive Betts MP joins Andrew Carter to discuss English devolution, local growth and Government priorities ahead of the spending review.
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research, to discuss the results of last week's local elections and what they mean for growth in the country....
A bad night of election results should not undo months of good economic policymaking.
With one week to go until the next Mayoral election – including two new mayoralties – the role of the mayor should still be much more about place than about party affiliation.
Greater Manchester’s Bee Network integration should be celebrated as a milestone of success for English devolution.
The goal of policy should be to give the mayors of Greater Manchester and beyond the autonomy the Mayor of London has, rather than weakening the mayoral model in the Capital
In the early 2000s, Japan reorganised its local government, completing 600 municipal mergers in just five years. What could the UK government learn from the policy environment, process and incentives the Japanese Government used?
Should new mayors be welcomed into the UK Mayors network or should it stay focused on only urban metro mayors?
A decade of devolution to metro mayors of England’s largest city regions has left Glasgow behind. It is time to give the city the powers and resources its English equivalents have.
As you read this, one of the most radical reforms to the state in fifty years is already underway.