The LGA's vice-chair has claimed elected mayors have done little to improve local democracy. Sir Jeremy Beecham, who has also been re-elected to Labour's national executive committee, said: ‘There is no case for imposing elected mayors. Ministers should resist a policy which is neither particularly popular with, nor of much interest to, an electorate preoccupied with more substantive matters.' He also criticised the London mayor's appointment system: ‘Acc-ountability does not seem to have been a hallmark of the mayoral regime, in terms of effective day-to-day scrutiny.'
