Member

As we have heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East, the Isle of Wight must be included in the strategic authority that he mentioned, for example. If we do not have referendums on setting up combined authorities—a lot of the amendments would provide for that—we will never take people with us and move devolution forward. As we have seen, there is no guarantee that the Government will listen to local, democratically elected councils’ decisions. That is why we should put that into law and give our constituents a final say through a referendum.