Vanity bridge shows problem with mayors | Letters

Sadiq Khan’s belated realisation that London’s garden bridge was selling the taxpayer down the river (A garden bridge too far, 29 April) brings into sharp relief the role of directly elected mayors.American-style mayors and cabinet government were foisted on to the electorate by Tony Blair, seriously harming councils’ accountability to the public and reducing backbench councillors to little more than lobby fodder.With the Conservatives intent on condemning local government to d