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Politics

Bristol’s mayoral referendum explained in one minute

With ballot boxes appearing in the post but precious little information as to why, here's a brief guide to what's happening in May.

Aphra Evans

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

WTF is the mayoral referendum? Your questions answered

Everything you need to know ahead of Bristol’s vote on keeping the mayor or switching to a committee system.

Matty Edwards

Bristol Mayoral Referendum

How Bristol is run isn’t just a political debate. It impacts our everyday lives.

We should care about the mayoral referendum in May because the importance of local democracy goes beyond the media and political bubble.

The Bristol Cable

Reports

Bristol councillors vote for mayoral referendum in 2022

Bristol will decide whether to keep the directly elected mayor, or return to the committee system that existed before the last referendum in 2012.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

People's History

From factory boss’s daughter to community organiser – meet Bristol’s first woman councillor

Mabel Tothill was a champion of the labour movement and women's rights in East Bristol.

June Hannam

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake

Season 1, Episode 1: Founding member of Countering Colston, Green party city councillor and former Lord Mayor, Cleo Lake has a lot to say on the big questions of politics, race, history and the future of Bristol and beyond.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Reports

Experiment in democracy, as council to pilot citizens’ assemblies

Bristolians could be gathered to make decisions on issues such as the climate crisis.

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter) and Matty Edwards

Reports

Chris Skidmore, Kingswood MP, declined to give statement in staffer’s sexual assault case, says detective

Chris Skidmore’s former parliamentary aide was cleared of sexually assaulting a teenager. The MP says he offered his full support to the police investigation. But a detective claims he declined to provide a police statement.