Mayoral hopeful Sion Simon will promise to use Birmingham City Council’s £3.5 billion budget to back local employers today, as he sets out his key pledges in the campaign to become Birmingham’s first directly-elected mayor.Read
Mayoral hopeful Sion Simon will promise to use Birmingham City Council’s £3.5 billion budget to back local employers today, as he sets out his key pledges in the campaign to become Birmingham’s first directly-elected mayor.Read
Tory grandee Michael Heseltine has revealed a “huge battle” is going on among Coalition Government ministers over how much power to give an elected mayor of Birmingham.Read
It was almost exactly a year ago that a letter sent to the larger than life Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles accused him of gunboat diplomacy and being disparaging of the work of local councils.Read
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby told a packed House of Commons reception that he personally secured jobs at Longbridge after building links between the city and China – but failed to offer any hints about whether he intended to stand for city mayor.Read
Barrister and former Birmingham City Council manager Mirza Ahmad has announced he could stand as an independent candidate for Birmingham mayor if city residents vote to create one in May’s referendum.Read
Birmingham creates jobs but not enough of them are filled by residents. Of all the English core cities, we have the largest percentage of working age population with no qualifications.
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Labour has taken the lead in presenting candidates who want to be Birmingham’s first directly-elected mayor, with no fewer than three declared wannabes.Read
Major Birmingham City Council contracts should be independently audited to avoid a repeat of the costly off-shoring jobs to India fiasco, it has been claimed.Read
Just 12 months ago Leicester stood where Birmingham is now standing – on the cusp of the most significant constitutional change the city had seen in generations.Read
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has emerged as a front-running Conservative candidate to become the city’s first directly elected mayor after receiving a ringing endorsement from Government minister for cities Greg Clark.Read
Birmingham’s business community is now firmly behind an elected mayor for Birmingham after the Chamber of Commerce formally joined Birmingham Forward in the ‘yes’ camp.Read
Labour launched a last-minute bid to block May’s mayoral referendum, describing the Government’s decisions to force cities to hold a vote as “Leninist”.Read
Elections for up to 11 new city mayors, including those for Birmingham and Coventry, are being fast-tracked to November - if residents decide they want them.Read
