Like the song: there are more questions than answers … but one thread joins the various models: some people are going to make a lot of money out of them and we end up with a totally different model of providing public services than hitherto that the public has had no say on.

Their only input will be to vote for the mega-Mayors of the new devolved areas.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/laird-ryan/devolution-or-just-doing-osbornes-bidding