Birmingham could still have a directly elected mayor, either to run the city or as a “metro mayor” with responsibility for the wider region, Ministers have insisted.Read
It would be in poor taste to evoke the spectre of Luftwaffe raids and the killing of innocent civilians during a prosaic political debate over the rights and wrong of appointing an elected mayor. That, however, is what a tawdry bunch of self-aggrandising local politicians has done.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
A Birmingham MP has condemned proposals for an elected mayor in the city as a “gimmick” - and vowed to work with people from all parties to block the scheme.Read
And so it has come to this. The campaign against a Birmingham mayor is based around the hoary old scare story that the job will go to a power-crazed “elected dictator”.Read
A Labour MP has condemned two close aides of former Prime Minister Tony Blair for their role in ailing care home provider Southern Cross, which runs 43 homes in the West Midlands.Read
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