Tony Blair

Tories finding Birmingham a tough nut to crack, but glimmer of hope for 2018

• 22nd June 2016
• Paul Dale
• Birmingham City council, Cllr John Clancy, Cllr Robert Alden, Councils, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, News, Partner Posts, Tony Blair

The Conservative party share of the vote at this year’s Birmingham city council elections fell to the lowest level since the late 1990s, but there remains a glimmer of hope

Secret Election Diary: Sir Albert’s long goodbye and a hustings U-turn

• 6th November 2015
• Paul Dale
• Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Dale's Diary, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, Kerslake Review, Lord Kerslake, Opinion, Partner Posts, Sir Albert Bore, Tony Blair

It’s been 16 years since Birmingham city council Labour group changed its leader. And how different things were in 1999 when Albert Bore successfully deposed Theresa Stewart to become city

‘Earnest, dull, the antithesis of modern politics – The Life of Jeremy is a smash hit’

• 30th September 2015
• Paul Dale
• Ed Miliband, Featured, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour conference, Labour Party (UK), News, Opinion, Tony Blair

The Life of Jeremy, which has premiered in Brighton, looks like being the smash hit comedy of the year, writes Paul Dale. The story is based on a classic British

Win or lose, Corbyn’s best gift to Labour could be voter registration

• 10th September 2015
• Chris Game
• Clement Attlee, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party (UK), Opinion, Popular, Recommended, Tony Blair

As voting in the Labour leadership election closes, Chris Game from the University of Birmingham wonders if the likely winner might turn his attention electoral registration and increasing the chances

Corbyn’s appeal to young and old Labour ‘will push him past the winning post’

• 29th July 2015
• Paul Dale
• Andy Burnham, Birmingham Labour, Ed Miliband, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, labour party, Labour Party (UK), Liz Kendall, Opinion, Tony Blair, Yvette Cooper

Jeremy Corbyn is going to be the new Labour leader because he represents something that is strikingly different in a politically superficial age, even though victory will condemn his party to many