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LDV’s plans, announced tonight, for a management buyout are an excellent sign of faith by the businesses leaders in the company. For some...

Tomorrow sees the Cabinet start their day in Southampton – part of the highly successful programme of holding Cabinet meetings outside...

Have a look at the article page on my blog for a riposte to Iain Martin’s Telegraph column of last week. Iain blows the cover on an...

Liam launches the new opportunities white paper at No 10 One of the ideas in the New Opportunities White paper i launched a few short...

Lots of people have been asking me where they can hold of copies of our new booklet setting out the whole range of help available to...

One of the greatest inspirations in my politics are the social entreprenuers who are coming together to change Hodge Hill by rolling up...

So, my first Question Time this week. Great fun. Not only do you get to meet truly famous people like the fantastic Monty Don (who made...

This morning saw me meeting some of the new PCSO’s in charge of keeping down crime in Washwood Heath. I campaign year round for more...

After a lot of thinking, this week i gave my first speech on reform of public services over the decade ahead. Let me knoiw what you...

More evidence for my theory that schools need to be community hubs from Nansen School, where I ran a women-only coffee morning this...

Just home from an excellent residents’ meeting on the Bromford, where I’ve been campaigning hard to get two empty tower blocks detonated....

Amid the acres of copy that is being written on what President-Elect Obama’s administration will mean for the world, and what it will...

I will be knocking on doors in Hodge Hill today rather than listening to the Fabian’s excellent looking line-up at their January...

A huge thanks to my door-knocking team who were out with me in Nechells last Friday. Thank the heavens for the warm reception on the...

Thousands of people across Hodge Hill have been in touch through petitions and letters and emails about the appalling humanitarian crisis...

The battle of ideas in British politics is now back on in earnest – and this week sees the argument strech beyond the politics of the...

Today, I develop my argument that far from being a broken country, we have a spirit in Britain that is strong. In today’s Sunday Times I...

One of the best things about this time of year is the way the generations come together. I’ve not visited many communities where people...

A huge ‘well done’ to the Jamie Reynolds, Ali Reece and the team at Birmingham’s Christmas Crisis who I went to see at Great Hampton Row...

Andrew Rawnsley puts the Conservative’s dilemma well today, writing; ‘The Conservatives are struggling to reconcile political tactics...