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Liam Byrne MP
Jul 3, 2009
Be Birmingham speech
Last week, I made a speech challenging the speed of progress in East Birmingham. Here’s the link to the text posted on the Treasury...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 30, 2009
Today’s GDP figures
These GDP figures are historic figures on the state of the economy 3 to 6 months ago, and once again underline the scale of the global...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 27, 2009
More on public service reform
My interview on Today programme, broadcast this morning, now online.
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 27, 2009
A new agenda for Birmingham
While we’re on the subject of new agendas, I’ll be posting shortly my speech to the Be Birmingham conference this morning, trailed in the...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 26, 2009
A new agenda for public services
My Guardian interview on our new agenda for public service reform is now up here. You can read a bit of the background in a speech I gave...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 25, 2009
Cuts from day one
You may have seen in the news today that David Cameron’s Conservatives would make cuts to public services from day one of a Tory...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 20, 2009
LDV update
A few people have asked me about LDV this week, so time for an update. The bottom line is that the administrator is working through...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 18, 2009
MPs’ allowances
Today – finally – the House of Commons gets round to publishing MPs’ receipts; weeks overdue in my humble opinion. Yesterday, I briefed...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 8, 2009
Thank you Hodge Hill
Last night was, as I predicted on Thursday, a good clip round the ear for the political classes as a whole. But in Hodge Hill, I have a...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 7, 2009
LDV Sunday night update
Over the weekend, I and my team have been working with LDV management team, the potential administrator and other contacts in the...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 6, 2009
My new job as Chief Secretary to the Treasury
I’m extremely proud that Birmingham has got a Cabinet Minister again. The credit for this new role goes completely to the residents of...
Liam Byrne MP
Jun 2, 2009
THE FIGHT FOR LDV GOES ON
I’m disappointed that, despite our hard-fought government bridging loan, Weststar hasn’t yet got the finance in place to seal the deal....
Liam Byrne MP
May 21, 2009
The bankrutpcy of the Right
We’ve heard a lot this week about Mr Cameron’s personal ambitions for himself – but almost nothing, again, about his ambitions for our...
Liam Byrne MP
May 14, 2009
Communitarian Politics for Britain’s Poorest Places
I delivered a speech last night to the Fabian Society, in the Boothroyd Room at the House of Commons. The speech was on the subject of...
Liam Byrne MP
May 13, 2009
£100 million for social enterprise jobs
This morning we’re announcing our third major package of measures this week, to back Britain’s fabulous social enterprises – those great...
Liam Byrne MP
May 10, 2009
Big week for social enterprise
We’re laying the ground-work for our big summit on Social Enterprise this Wednesday. See Peter Mandelson’s article here. We want to see...
Liam Byrne MP
May 10, 2009
LDV’s fabulous electric vans
Friday saw me at Bromford House to check in with LDV’s management team, after news of £5 million in Government assistance to aid a new...
Liam Byrne MP
May 9, 2009
Trans-Atlantic parallels
If you want a quick and easy guide to how closely the Obama administration now mirrors the UK plan for fight-backing against the...
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