He’s proof that your boat can be swept along by the same tide as others, but how you steer it is a matter of individual style.
Plus: Starmer needs to bring Cooper and Benn into his top team. But will they even want the jobs?
But he looks to be a stronger candidate than he did four years ago, when he first stood to be West Midlands Mayor.
I’ll get back to work the moment the election result is announced.
Just one question: is the Party failing collectively over expectations management? Hopes over Hartlepool risk running out of control.
He won narrowly in 2017 in a shock result. Another victory would signify more fundamental political change.
The sad truth is that many local Labour councils and local bureaucracies don’t want it: they’re scared of it.
From the start, I have made it very clear that I am a Mayor for the whole region, not just ‘Greater Birmingham’.
An interesting mental exercise is to identify an institution that expands through failure. I can only come up with one – prisons.
The Government got “Brexit done” – and now wants to deliver on its pledge to spread “opportunity across the whole United Kingdom”.
“What will drive levelling up is not necessarily about roads and bridges but getting people ready for the industries of the future.”
The first in a five-part ConHome series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
From reversing the Beeching cuts to pioneering ‘Very Light Rail’, it shows what a Conservative mayor, working with Government, can do.
The ‘rules of origin’ requirements give us a chance to reshore much of the supply chain – and the skilled jobs it creates – for our automotive industry.
It’s your efforts on the doorstep and phone that will help us to deliver more local Conservatives with a proven track record of delivering good local services.