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Voting for your mayor?
Voting for your mayor?
Last Modified: 23 Apr 2008
By:
Andrew Thomas
The election for London mayor is about as much fun as politics ever gets. So More4 News asks why doesn't every British city have an elected mayor?
The election for London mayor is about as much fun as politics ever gets. So More4 News asks why doesn't every British city have an elected mayor?
It's a truth universally acknowledged that local politics and excitement rarely go together.
But in London, local politics has been unusually exciting - with Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick battling it out for the mayor's job.
But it begs the question - why doesn't every city do this?
A think tank today says they should - and it blames vested interests among local councils for blocking it. Andrew Thomas reports.
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