North Somerset Council leader Cllr Nigel Ashton has launched a blistering attack on the Government’s ‘lack of honesty’ over devolution.
Cllr Ashton said Government pressure on regions to accept elected metro mayors as part of devolution deals showed the process had ‘always been about central control’ and called on ministers not to ‘treat us all like idiots’.
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