It's not so much a shift in power from councils to Mayors but a duplication and a doubling of everything that that brings. Hence, Thatcher got read of the earlier version ('iteration', in modern parlance) of Mayors and Combined Authorities, called County Councils.
It was the W Mids County Council councillors under present, still repeatedly re-elected, Cllr Phil Bateman who brought back trams only twenty years after the same councillors of all parties got rid of them. Phil's trams went on two mainline railways now destroyed and a third, very nearly! The idiots.
The single figure head Mayor is a compliant rubber stamp - as are the councillors. Surplus to requirements - the lot of them.
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