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The issue of the provision of new homes is an important topic of national political debate for the first time since the 1960s. We welcome this debate, because we believe that here in Birmingham we are leading the way in both providing new homes ourselves, but also...

At the close of Living Wage Week, it is important we look forward towards how we continue to grow the campaign for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. But first, I want to look back. We know how to use the procurement power of the state to secure better living...

This week’s debate was a stark reminder that practices such as blacklisting which should have no place in a modern society, continue to scar our national decency. As the Information Commissioner’s Office put it ‘the blacklist remains a black spot on the history of...

Liberal Democrat Don Foster, the communities minister, recently announced: ‘I want to see a simpler set of housing standards that people can easily understand and that free up developers and councils to get on with the job of building the high quality new homes we so...