One of Labour’s most senior MPs in the Midlands is at the centre of a major row with activists and union leaders after he refused to vote against the Government’s “workfare” plans in the Commons.Read
The trust which runs Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital has become embroiled in a bitter row with another Midland health trust over suggestions that it could take over another hospital.Read
The Labour Party is a broad church. Battles between “left” and “right” were taking place long before Tony Blair and colleagues invented New Labour.Read
David Cameron has said it was time to “get back to some basic thoughts” about care in the NHS as the Government prepares to publish its response to the Mid-Staffordshire health scandal inquiry.Read
Chancellor George Osborne has defended his Budget, saying the Government had to tackle the nation's economic problems, which "could be a lot worse".Read
Chancellor George Osborne is announcing radical plans to try to get Britain’s economy growing by diverting billions of pounds to local partnerships of councillors and business leadersRead
Lord Heseltine has urged the Goverment to hand over a share of £70 billion to Birmingham and neighbouring towns and counties, as he launched the “Greater Birmingham Project” alongside business and council leaders.Read
Midland peers have clashed with some of Britain’s leading authors over their attempt to bring in newspaper regulation by linking it to reforms of the libel law.Read
A Birmingham MP has hit back after senior church leaders, including the Bishops of Birmingham and Dudley, attacked plans to limit benefit increases.Read
Desperately-needed rebuilding work that was promised to schools across the West Midlands has been described as a ‘sham’ after it emerged virtually none of the work is currently going ahead.Read
Just as Margaret Thatcher fought a losing battle to stop the community charge being called the "poll tax" so this Government is losing the battle to stop "bedroom tax" entering the lexicon.Read
Health campaigners demanding that senior managers are held to account for the Stafford Hospital "disaster" are to step up their calls for the resignation of NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson.Read
Two thirds of the £30 million set aside for the introduction of wheelie bins could be spent protecting front line council services according to Birmingham’s Liberal Democrats.Read
Britain is in a mess, with future generations worse off than their parents for the first time in living memory, says the new TUC general secretary.Read
