Politics

• Your say / mayoral referendum

  ‘Bristol needs to have a mayor – but not one who has two second jobs’

  Martin Booth on why Bristol's mayor should be fully focused on being mayor

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• News / Merchant Venturers

  Master of Merchant Venturers defends society’s control over Downs

  Campaigners say the society has been 'exercising power without responsibility for too long'

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• News / weca

  WECA mayor set to receive £20,000 pay rise

  It means the salary of the regional mayor will exceed that of an MP

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• News / Bristol Citizens' Assembly

  Asher Craig: ‘We are walking our talk’ in Bristol’s experiment in democracy

  One year on from the trial that put local people at the heart of decision-making

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• News / Politics

  Former cabinet member who lost seat could make swift return to City Hall

  Kye Dudd has been selected as Labour's councillor for Southmead by-election

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• News / Colston 4

  Asher Craig: ‘The verdict was the verdict’

  Bristol's deputy mayor says Colston's statue "should have been removed a very long time ago"

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• Your say / mayoral referendum

  ‘We should talk about what we need to build not burn down’

  Mike Norton says Bristol could return to a broken political system if the mayoral model is scrapped

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• News / Politics

  Budget cuts of £19.5m needed to balance council books

  The proposed budget includes hikes to council tax and parking fees

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