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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…
CPCA Mayor faces questions at Cambridge Guildhall – and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Chris Mann
Two sets of question-and-answer sessions for CPCA Mayor Paul Bristow in the continuing heatwave You can listen to Chris Mann’s cross-examination of the CPCA Mayor on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire here. (Available till end of July 2026) I’ve not yet listened to the above, but one thing journalists are able to do that most councillors don’t…
The Cambridge Town Owl 