Sir Keir Starmer to meet with mayors and devolved leaders

The council should have the power to veto.

So ... devolution of justice, devolution of broadcasting and media and HS2 consequential all on the table, yes? Or are we having the poverbial taken by a UK Govt yet again. Not a talking shop? Proof is in the pudding.

So, now Wales (Scotland, and NI) have been demoted to the same level as English provincial or city mayors?

Will his new advisor for the regions, Sue Gray be heading it up now she is no longer CoS

I've just seen that Sue Grey has resigned from her existing post, "too much unhelpful contention" sic, and is now to be Starmer's "Envoy to the Regions and Cities". And probably elevated to the Lords? Because that's how failure works. So we now have an "envoy" to the far flung colonies, just like the Raj but with Starmer in his plumed hat, those ostrich feathers lovingly paid for by Lord Alli. "Oh what a lovely Labour party "

May I remind Keir Starmer that those so-called "talking shops" were so because New Labour retained powers & levers in 1997. Also it doesn't help when powers requested are denied cynically to one constituent part i.e Wales but devolved to Scotland, Northern Ireland & England. And less we forget. The then Welsh Assembly in 1999 stumbled along for twelve wasted years of devolution because the then Welsh Assembly not only lacked sufficient members to function , this a deliberate act by New Labour, having only 60 AMs but it also lacked teeth to make real change due to no real powers until Plaid Cymru in coalition forced Welsh Labour's arm with the "One Wales" coalition agreement in 2007 and legislative referendum of 2011. Note: Even though Wales had devolution in 1997 basically it was a facade as New Labour still proxy controlled Cardiff Bay from London via the LCO system (Legislative Competent Order) where the then Assembly (Senedd Cymru) had four layers of government to go through. Senedd, Welsh Secretary, House of Commons & House of Lords. And it took only one layer to disagree and the bill had to go back to the Assembly be changed. One bill bounced back & forth taking four years to become Welsh law. Devolution lol. Yeah, right! They were taking the political p*** out of Wales. And we don't have a Senedd Cymru (Welsh parliament) because both UK Labour and Conservatives are all of a sudden converts to Welsh democracy. Oh no. It's mixture of cementing Labour contro Wales and both Labour & Conservatives trying to fend off the independence movement with further devolution Scotland because the SNP were riding a crest of a wave out of fear, Although since Whitehall has tried to row back on their devolution respect agenda . A good example is the dissolving of Welsh & Scottish laws passed by Whitehall. The Conservative government dissolved the Senedd Cymru , Trade Union (Wales) Act, passed into Welsh law in 2017 protecting striking workers. In 2023 the Conservatives attacked Scotland using Article 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to block the Scottish Parliament Gender recognition bill. Tory Whitehall also stole our EU Brexit powers due back to Wales, Scotland & NI. We are where we are now with a legislative Senedd Cymru that's soon to have 96 members in 2026 after 27 years because us Welsh nationalists fought tooth & nail over the decades. So I suggest he (Keir Starmer) reframe from using inflammatory rhetoric and sound bites listen and act when the Senedd asks for the devolution of powers already devolved to the other administration. So if indeed this Westminster powwow with heep big chief Starmer is done out of mutual respect and cooperation, what's the point of having Secretaries of State who are allegedly there as Wales, Scotland & NI's voice at the cabinet table? Aren't they in communication with the devolved Parliaments/Assembly First Ministers? I'm very suspicious. Labour are control freaks. They give a little with one hand and take back with a closed fist.

Mrs G will now be laying down the law to those pesky Celts

What an insult to Cymru. We need a starmer him out of Cymru vote 🗳️

Even the PM can see how useless the devolved governments are and his way is to cut them out of control of these ministers . FM and her previous FM,s together with Welsh Labour ministers complained when the conservatives started to this now they won’t say a word