Politicians should follow John Major’s example and get a soapbox
John Major, who speaks in the West Midlands today, energised his 1992 election campaign by speaking from a soapbox. It’s the sort of thing modern-day politicians should try.
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A vigil was held in the West Midlands for the four boys who died after falling into an icy lake last Sunday.
The Conservatives wanted three key victories last night: along with Hartlepool they wanted to keep their mayors in the West Midlands and the Tees Valley.
With West Yorkshire now set to move into Tier 3 and millions more people in the West Midlands and Tees Valley expected to join them imminently, is the current localised approach working or sustainable?
The West Midlands has emerged as a coronavirus hotspot, with Birmingham and Wolverhampton especially hard hit.
The Mayor for the West Midlands, Andy Street, and Nikki Williams, who is head of campaigns at The Wildlife Trusts discuss HS2.
Tonight our purple Channel 4 News couch is in Bewdley in the West Midlands where the psychoanalytic psychotherapist Susanna Abse has been talking to the deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson.
London is not the only city trying to tackle a surge in violent crime. There’s been a sharp increase in knife-related offences in the West Midlands, where deaths among young people are at their highest for 40 years.
Emily Proffitt is a primary school head in the West Midlands, who also represents the National Association of Head Teachers, and Mark Lehain is the founder and former principal of a free school in Bedfordshire.
At least 33 British MPs have been on paid trips to Saudi Arabia, since its troops entered Yemen in 2015. One of the MPs – the former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell – joins us from his constituency in the West Midlands.
The Government is looking into whether ageism and misogyny should be included as hate crimes. We talk to Richard Cooke, who chairs the West Midlands Police Federation, and Laura Bates from the Everyday Sexism project.
John Major, who speaks in the West Midlands today, energised his 1992 election campaign by speaking from a soapbox. It’s the sort of thing modern-day politicians should try.
A Ukrainian student with a hatred of “non-whites” pleads guilty to stabbing an 82-year-old grandfather to death and causing explosions near mosques in the West Midlands.
The police commissioner for the West Midlands tells Channel 4 News that the deputy chair of the IPCC was “either wrong or incompetent” over her handling of the “plebgate” affair.
A pioneering unit in the West Midlands that has been the only bright spot in Britain’s woeful record on stillbirths has seen its workload scaled back as a result of NHS reconfiguration.
Police investigating a nail bomb attack at a mosque in the West Midlands carry out a controlled explosion on part of the device. Darshna Soni reports from the scene.