Opportunity for Mayors with the visitor levy to draw a clear link between that and visible local improvements.

Playgrounds are good, small things that matter for children and their families. Cross-generational 'social' infrastructure.

They'll also be trialling pooling public service budgets in five MSAs alongside working with Greater Manchester on a prevention demonstrator.

And whilst I do not think Polanski is a Mamdaniesque communicator, he impresses because he at least gets the new media environment and how to operate within it.

What’s underwritten is his attitude to attack and criticism - he takes both lightly - which makes him an evasive political opponent.

But within the leadership campaign itself part of his appeal was that he was seen as someone who could appeal to more moderate voters so it's a different dynamic

Three criteria I think are important, sure there are more:

1. Clarity of worldview - everything else basically flows from this.
2. Communicative ability - attentional and other forms.
3. Visibly path to an electoral coalition - ability to appeal to left flank new for more recent contests.

Burnham's Today interview bringing this out. Focus on growth in every place and more local deliberation around asylum policy.

The strands may also differ in approaching the common good, through imposition or deliberation for example.

This may then translate into how they approach the party/other parties (scope for disagreement, cooperation).

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive - more compelling when combined.

I'd see Mahmood as more sovereigntist, Burnham as more pluralist.

On the economy, the pluralist strand would be interested in dispersing economic power out from London as well as it being exercised democratically from the centre.

On borders, pluralists might look at ways to open up that debate.

Yeah, people literally said as much on the doorstep