That’s why last week I launched my transport plan for the West Midlands – an ambitious, 20-year vision of how our constituent boroughs will be linked in the coming decades.
Measuring people’s incomes needs to be part of measuring progress – but we need to be careful, because different measures give different results.
Our readers’ top choice was the same as Number Ten’s for the Lords: York. But a good case was made for Coventry – and Warwick University.
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Good quality office space is far cheaper in Birmingham than London, and the quality of life is higher. The West Midlands is full of battleground parliamentary seats.
We have already cut our carbon emissions by nearly half in ten years, combined with sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
We in the regions must accept that it will be up to us to provide the detailed data that will help to monitor the success of investment made.
Many of these buildings could be replaced with new homes. New rules are needed to end this scandal.
The Prime Minister was right to say many voters have only ‘lent’ us their votes. We must now earn that trust, by ensuring the benefits of life in a post-Brexit Britain reach all communities.
After 45 years, justice has still not been served for the 21 people who were murdered. Their families and their city deserve closure.
We are encouraging people to do more exercise. We are investing millions in schemes to boost cycling and walking, which helps improve air quality in built-up areas.
It has, without consultation or a change in the law, slammed shut the principal way that investigating corruption of the register may be properly conducted.
In Birmingham, the Labour council is adamant about introducing its hated Congestion Charge; which will hit the poorest the hardest.
There would seem to be a difference between the rhetoric coming out of the US and the implementation of policy.