Cllr Bob Sleigh

Daily Mail’s right about local government’s C-word – why make it so easy for them?

• 19th March 2018
• Chris Game
• Birmingham City council, Business Birmingham, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Cllr Ian Ward, Neil Rami, News, Partner Posts, Waheed Nazir

With the dust settled on MIPIM in Cannes, Chris Game reflects on why the C-word causes so much trouble in local government circles.  It can sometimes be tricky nowadays working

Solihull Cabinet member for housing suspended following Twitter comment on Grenfell protest

• 19th June 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Cllr Bob Sleigh, Councils, Featured, housing, News, Partner Posts

Solihull Council has suspended its Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration following remarks he made on Twitter on Friday night. Quoting a Tweet from a Guardian journalist reporting on protests

Street appoints Deputy Mayor as Combined Authority backs Birmingham’s Games Bid

• 12th May 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr John Clancy, Devolution, Featured, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, Martin Reeves, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

Andy Street’s first meeting as chair of the West Midlands Combined Authority was a good natured affair with lots of praise across the political divide for outgoing chair Cllr Bob

Political leaders look to hold ‘heads above water’ on land supply

• 22nd February 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Cllr Bob Sleigh, Devolution, Featured, housing, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

It seems like a lifetime ago, given developments at Birmingham city council over the weekend, but the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) board met only last Friday where it took

Gill and Sleigh top regional political honours

• 31st December 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Councils, European Parliament, European Union, Featured, News, Partner Posts, WMCA

Labour MEP and Conservative Solihull council leader top list of honours for regional politicians.  Neena Gill, one of the region’s two Labour MEPs, becomes a CBE in the New Year

Order order: the mayoral power play

• 9th December 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Martin Reeves, Opinion, Partner Posts, WMCA, WMPCC

If you were in any doubt about the level of excitement and anticipation felt towards the prospect of a Metro Mayor joining council leaders around the West Midlands Combined Authority

The making of an Industrial Strategy is hard work

• 23rd November 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• Cllr Bob Sleigh, Featured, GBSLEP, Greg Clark, LEPs, News, Partner Posts, Sajid Javid

For years there were none to be seen. The days of interventionists like Lords Heseltine and Mandelson and Sir Vince Cable were seemingly over. Former Business Secretary Sajid Javid was

This Life or That’s Life! – another episode in the mayoral campaign

• 24th October 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Birmingham Airport, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Devolution, Featured, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, News, Partner Posts, Sion Simon, WM2015, WMCA

Kevin Johnson rounds up the latest efforts to give the mayoral campaigns lift off. Liberal Democrat candidate Beverley Nielsen featured on yesterday’s regional opt of the BBC’s Sunday Politics with

What did the circus leave behind?

• 10th October 2016
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Devolution, Featured, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, Opinion, Partner Posts, Sion Simon, WMCA

So, the conference circus has left town and won’t be back for another two years. Just what joy did it leave in its trail, asks Chamberlain Files editor Kevin Johnson? Wander

West Midlands Devo 2 ‘just like Brexit, shrouded in mystery’

• 4th October 2016
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Cllr Bob Sleigh, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Cllr John Clancy, Devolution, Featured, GBSLEP, LEPs, News, Partner Posts, WMCA

Devolution, productivity and skills are the key words of the Conservative conference so far. Paul Dale reflects on the second day.  Given that the Tories are gathering in Birmingham and