With his dramatic defeat in the West Midlands mayoral election still sinking in on Saturday, Andy Street briefly pondered his future. 'I'm just going to take time to reflect,' he told the BBC. 'On Monday, I shall be up Cadair Idris in Wales and I'm really looking forward to that.'
"I don't think he'd fancy being an MP," one Tory MP told me. "Being an MP would probably frustrate him, having been in control of such a big area."
Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said being a mayor 'with a big budget, power, influence and agency is very different to being a backbencher'. 'I'm not sure it would be easy for someone like Andy Street, who is used to getting things done.'
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