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Will Treasury let Andy Burnham overhaul local government finance? From his speech at the People’s History Museum
If you’ve not been to the People’s History Museum, have a look here. The ‘PM-in-waiting’ as the media are setting him up as, gave his first policy speech post-by-election at the Museum You can watch the speech in full via the AP here – do have a listen What Mr Burnham is up against is…
How can the CPCA Mayor raise the profile of the Mayoralty with an unfamiliar public in an era of low trust in Politics?
For those of you that have forgotten, the Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Paul Bristow included getting a light rail for Cambridge built, and ‘making the Mayoralty matter’ in his manifesto You can browse through his manifesto here. Image: Political Education for Adults (1983) by the old Advisory Council for Adult and…
Cambridgeshire MPs debate Forest City proposed for West Suffolk
Ministers have responded to MPs who have raised the Forest City Concept with them. The Combined Authority Mayor for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Paul Bristow was also asked about it at his public questions event at Cambridge Guildhall on 25 June 2026 (see my previous blogpost) and he was dismissive of both the concept and of…
The Cambridge Town Owl 