Member

Therefore, we need something, and I hope that the Government will take this back and come up with something on Report that will tell us what the Mayoral Council for England is intended to take over, how it will relate to central government and—this the reason why the amendment says something different for a local council in England—how the 35 mayors that we may well end up with will interact with Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Governments. They will not want to be swamped by 35 English mayors when they are trying to negotiate the governance of the United Kingdom, the fiscal arrangements for the United Kingdom and a whole set of other issues that will involve—particularly if we have a reset with the European Union—a set of arguments about the interaction between domestic legislation and international obligations. I beg to move.