The Fabian-founded institution training Britain's next generation of mayors

LSE has been hiring with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies

In my article on Monday I covered the fact that, in May, the London School of Economics was hiring for a “Policy Officer for Bloomberg LSE Mayoral Strategic Authorities Programme”.

LSE, in case you didn’t know was, in its words “the brain child” of four prominent members of the Fabian Society: “Sidney Webb, supported by his wife, the social investigator Beatrice Webb, the political scientist Graham Wallas, and the writer George Bernard Shaw”, something that shouldn’t be forgotten in the context of its expansion as a mayoral training ground.

The advert for the Policy Officer explained how “LSE Cities and the School of Public Policy are preparing to launch a new training and capacity building initiative to help metro mayors and their Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs) accelerate progress and turn newly devolved and broader powers into tangible results for residents”, and that the initiative would sit “within a wider programme supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, designed to strengthen institutional capability of Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs) in the context of the UK’s wider devolution agenda.”

And that’s not all…