Opinion: A ‘mare’ for the mayor?

When we first moved to Bedford five years ago I noted but didn’t think much about, the fact we had one of the relatively few directly elected mayors. Only a dozen or so councils in England have opted for this system, out of well over 300. And at least four have subsequently abandoned the mayoral […]

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