This year's local election results delivered an indecisive set of verdicts for both Labour and Conservative aspirations. Neither party made a definitive breakthrough in urban areas and the number of city councils reamined largely unchanged. If anything, the poltical divides that emerged in urban England at the 2017 general election - between bigger cities and smaller cities, and buoyant and struggling places - are persisting.

We ask a panel of experts: Has the Government given Metro Mayors and strategic authority leaders the right set of tools, powers and money to solve their area's unique set of challenges?

Speakers include:

Elizabeth Campbell, Leader of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Sir Merrick Cockell, former chairman, LGA (Chair)

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol

George Freeman MP, Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk

Andy Bounds, North England Correspondent, Financial Times