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While Boris Johnson disgraces his office, Keir Starmer has distinguished himself with progress made and poll leads. But one key challenge...

The Ukraine Crisis: How does the West offer Russia an iron fist in a velvet glove? Liam Byrne meets Brigadier General Pamela McGaha at...

The nice people at Tortoise invited me on to chat about ‘the prospects for inflation’ this week. Pulling together the research and...

Hats off to the #PandoraPapers team that’s exposed the sheer scale of the tax avoidance by 35 current and former global leaders –...

THE LONG BATTLE FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS MAYORALTY Believe it or not, I hadn’t planned to run for Mayor. It wasn’t on the back of my...

Defeat is the toughest teacher. But unless Keir Starmer confronts Labour with tough truths in Brighton, defeat is what we face in the...

It’s the Foreign Secretary’s job to supply a foreign policy. Ours has failed. The Economist doesn’t mince it’s word this week in...

As the smoke clears on our disastrous retreat from Kabul, the Spectator’s James Forsyth rightly points in the Times, at the hole where...

Since the creation of the Competition and Markets Authority in 2013, competition has stalled, big companies have got ever bigger, and...

The BBC has woefully under invested in the Midlands for years. And as we hurtle into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, that’s not...

The rows between No 10 and No 11 Downing Street are almost part of the constitution. And now they’re back. In The Sunday Times this...

It was Cicero who once said, ‘The sinews of war are infinite money’. So as Joe Biden squares up to Russia it might just be time for...

After every major summit the Prime Minister comes back the Commons to update us and take questions. As you might, many of us zeroed in on...

Thanks to all those who came to my residents meeting in Ward End last night – especially colleagues from West Midlands Police. We’ll post...

Krugman on the American squeezed middle. http://tinyurl.com/2ast5ht #squeezedmiddle

This week, I published my argument for Labour’s approach to creating a country of ‘powerful people’. I mentioned that over the last ten...

Some will have seen news in the Guardian and elsewhere today about rights to new services for people with suspected cancer. For those who...

Yesterday, we had simply the most extraordinary turn-out for our Big Lottery Fund Awards for All masterclass at the Beaufort Sports &...

Lots of workers at Jaguar Land Rover live in Hodge Hill, and they’ll be worried about the plans that Jaguar Land Rover announced today. I...