How can councils work more closely together? As pressures mount on budgets, many are looking at combining services, or acquiring devolved powers. But this week it was announced that a Solent Combined Authority bid was 'almost certainly dead'. So can consensus be reached? Earlier on Sunday Politics South our Political Editor Peter Henley spoke to Laetisia Carter, the deputy leader of the Labour group on West Oxfordshire council, and Dr Phillip Lee the Conservative MP for Bracknell | BBC Hampshire

The future of Hampshire and the Solent is in your hands. Have your say on bringing devolution to Hampshire and the Solent. | UK Government