This week Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary Maria Eagle reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to HS2. We now have all three main political parties on-board.Read
Birmingham’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition should be ashamed for acting so forcefully to drive through public spending cuts and axing hundreds of local government jobs, a leading Labour city councillor has insisted.Read
A former Tory MP is calling on the party faithful to back an elected mayor for Birmingham and fears the party could get left behind in any contest.Read
All suggestions about ways in which Birmingham City Council should deliver huge public spending cuts will be published as part of a unique consultation exercise.Read
Residents, business leaders and community groups have been asked to tell Ministers what powers an elected mayor in Birmingham or Coventry should have.Read
Fresh-faced Aidan Burley provided a fine illustration of how divided the Conservatives are on Europe as he struggled through his speech during the Commons debate on whether to hold a referendum.Read
Labour could hold an open primary to find a new candidate for Edgbaston as Ed Miliband faces the prospect of a difficult and high-profile by-election.Read
Campaigning MP Tom Watson is at the centre of a huge row over his refusal to quit from the influential Commons committee investigating the phone hacking scandal.Read
Nikki Sinclaire, the West Midlands MEP who successfully campaigned for an historic Commons vote on an EU referendum, writes for the Birmingham Post.Read
A West Midlands Conservative MP elected for the first time last year has explained why he had to rebel against the Government in an historic vote on the European Union.Read
The battle over plans to re-draw the political map of Birmingham has heated up after the Labour MP for Erdington rejected proposals from his own party.Read
