The rest of 2024 will be defined by whether Tory mayors Andy Street and Ben Houchen win third terms
On 2 May only two names will matter. When large swathes of the country go to the polls for this year’s local elections, all eager Westminster eyes should be watching a couple of mayors.
Their first victories in 2017 kick-started the post-Brexit realignment, where the Conservatives began winning well beyond their natural base. Street, the former John Lewis chief executive, brought his pragmatic business persona to win over a conurbation all assumed would be an easy Labour win. The same was true, even more so, for Houchen, who won against the odds in even deeper red territory.
Given the importance to the future of conservatism the pair hold, you’d expect Labour to be standing their very best contenders. In both instances, the party has opted for bland, generic figures who have little frontline experience and public profile. In some respects, both are candidates in the same vein of Sir Keir Starmer: capitalising on the popularity drag of being Conservative, instead of trying to win on the merits of their own platforms or persona.
Part of the reason is that mayors remain relatively new to the UK’s political cycle. A decade ago, none of the UK’s major cities had elected ones, bar London. In a few weeks’ time, with several new areas gaining mayors, nearly all will.For a nation that is often decried as the most centralised in the Western world, huge progress has been made in shifting power closer to people. We should celebrate it more.
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