Labour-controlled Sandwell Council – for years the bastion of the Labour right – has elected a council leader from the left. Yvonne Davies – a no-nonsense councillor who has frequently […]
Edit: this article originally described Julian Saunders as a ‘UKIP-supporting blogger’. He has been in touch to advise that he is not a UKIP supporter. Sandwell council leader – and […]
Labour took a seat in the epitome of a Tory heartland on Thursday evening, in a council by-election win that was treated as a ‘shock’ by election pundits – but […]
Derek Rowley, the Secretary of Labour’s Local Campaign Forum (LCF) in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell, has been the subject of serious allegations from Labour members and council employees […]
In January, Tory MP James Morris secured a Commons debate on alleged ‘incompetence and corruption’ of the Labour council in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell. In isolation, Morris’ claims […]