De-industrialisation has led to a high number of empty properties. But we now have more housing completions than the average London borough.
We have a university system where 34 per cent of graduates don’t get graduate jobs and which subsidises unlimited courses in media studies.
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.
The fourth in our series: how the 2017 generation of winners from Labour increased their majorities.
Going from the metropolitan bubble in London to another one elsewhere would be pointless. What about Derby, Stoke or York instead?
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.
For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.
That doesn’t mean they are all suddenly hardcore Tories. For many we were the least-worst option. But we have an opportunity to win their trust.
The Neoliberal Manifesto, a joint project between the Adam Smith Institute and 1828, champions an approach based on freedom, markets and choice.
We can avoid the mistakes of the past by locating a new factory for electric car batteries in the regional home of vehicle manufacturing.
Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.
In 2011, we only had a couple of councillors. Now we lead it. Labour’s complacency has given us the chance to grow.
Reviewing the details of the results in this region gives a sense of how volatile the electorate has become.
Those representing constituencies with big majorities that voted Leave may conclude they don’t want to push their luck.
Death is not a statistical data point, and the loss of life of a mother, a father, a child, and a key worker can never be filled.