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b"Crucial elections take place across the UK on 6 May. The result in Scotland could have huge consequences for the UK's future. The election in Wales is the most unpredictable since devolution. And across England, voters will elect the mayors of London and other English cities, 39 police and crime commissioners and several thousand councillors. The impact on the national political debate could be significant.\\n\\nTo make sense of the results and analyse what they mean, the Institute for Government held a special post-election expert discussion.\\n\\nWhat will the votes mean for the major parties? How will the result in Scotland affect the independence question? What comes next in the devolution debate? And what will the mayors of the big English cities do with their powers?\\n\\nJoining us to answer these questions and more were:\\n\\nKieran Andrews, Scottish Political Editor at The Times\\nProfessor Laura McAllister, Professor of Public Policy at the Wales Governance Centre, University of Cardiff\\nProfessor Tony Travers, Professor in Practice in the Department of Government, London School of Economics\\nJess Sargeant, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government\\n\\nThe event was chaired by Akash Paun, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government."