LOCAL Government Secretary Eric Pickles has finally dumped his daft proposal to appoint Birmingham’s council leader Mike Whitby as the city’s acting mayor without an election.Read
BIRMINGHAM MP Andrew Mitchell (Con, Sutton Coldfield) has upset some colleagues by suggesting we should be proud that Britain is an “aid superpower”.Read
AN UNFLATTERING portrait of Birmingham MP Liam Byrne (Lab Hodge Hill) has appeared in the pages of Total Politics, a magazine dedicated to the minutiae of life at Westminster.Read
THOUSANDS of civil servants have a clause in their contracts allowing them to claim first class rail travel at taxpayers’ expense, a Birmingham MP has discovered.Read
AS WE’VE reported previously, Birmingham MP Liam Byrne (Lab Hodge Hill) has been given the task of getting Labour leader Ed Miliband into Downing Street.Read