Ahead of the budget next week, the Guardian’s John Harris is in Birmingham, where the city council in effect declared itself bankrupt in 2023. He spends time with people struggling with the severe spending cuts and asks...
Read MoreExclusive: England mayors fear bus, tube and tram plans could be scrapped if Treasury reneges on agreed budgetsHundreds of millions of pounds of local transport funding in England could be cut in next week’s spending...
Read MorePublic told to stay away from area and Environment Agency call in after spillage in Pleck of toxic chemicalA major incident has been declared in the West Midlands after sodium cyanide was spilled into a canal, with the Walsall...
Read MoreA Midlands school outlines its flexible approach to running its daily club and reacts to Labour’s £365m free breakfast policy It is just gone 7.30am at The Priory primary school in Wednesbury, near Walsall, and...
Read MoreOne Nation moderates call on defeated West Midlands mayor to take ‘brand Andy’ to WestminsterSenior Tories on the moderate One Nation wing of the party are urging the defeated West Midlands mayor Andy Street to...
Read MoreDoorbell video of woman campaigning for Labour in West Midlands shared by independent candidateA teacher was subject to a viral hate campaign after a manipulated video of her campaigning for Labour falsely implied she had used...
Read MoreFormer home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election results. This live blog is closedLabour triumphs in London and West...
Read MoreFormer home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West Midlands Braverman says...
Read MoreFormer home secretary says ‘we must not change our leader’ as Tories reel from local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West MidlandsKeir Starmer: It’s time to end the UK’s...
Read MoreFormer home secretary says ‘we must not change our leader’ as Tories reel from local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West MidlandsKeir Starmer: It’s time to end the UK’s...
Read MoreWest Midlands mayor had been expected to hold on but was defeated by Labour by 1,508 votes to cap awful results for ToriesFull mayoral and council results for EnglandGood morning. The local elections are over, all but three...
Read MoreRunning as a ‘pseudo-independent’ in a region in which Labour faced its own hurdles was not enough to keep Tory mayor in officeAfter a nail-biting finale, Andy Street has become the most high-profile victim of...
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