Gordon Brown has ordered his cabinet to Birmingham today for their first full meeting after the summer holidays. It’s the first time the cabinet has met outside London since the days of Lloyd George. There are many who will consider this ‘gesture politics’ and a gimmick copied from David Cameron, who held his first ever shadow cabinet in Birmingham and will return here in three w...

Gordon Brown is taking the Cabinet to Birmingham for its first meeting since the summer break.

According to the Birmingham Post, 12 December 2008 (online on the 11 December). Last night senior Conservative councillor John Alden, chairman of the leisure, sport and culture scrutiny committee, said he knew nothing of the plans, how much the pool would cost or how it would be funded. He told Birmingham Post he would have to attend the cabinet meeting on Monday. According to the Cabinet document...

The Cabinet's 'awayday' to Birmingham as the Prime Minister faced a political crisis cost more than £62000 it has emerged.

On board the train to Birmingham Never before has any one train seen quite so much political traffic. I am travelling with the Tory leader David Cameron up to Birmingham to make a Panorama to be broadcast at the time of the Tory conference. By remarkable coincidence, the cabinet and the prime minister are making the same journey. One cabinet minister brushed past Mr Cameron and myself on his way t...

Will the Birmingham away-day keep Gord in his job? Well there they are after a summer of apparent discontent and whispering and the cabinet all travel to Birmingham to hold the first meeting outside London for ninety years. Every single one of them joins in by doing outside public events before the meeting itself which receives

by Mike Wongsham - Chairperson, Birmingham UAF (originally published in The Stirrer - Twice in recent months, Birmingham has played host to racist protestors. Now there is a threat they will return again. How should the people of Birmingham respond? Adrian Goldberg has suggested a “Birmingham United” event to give people of different colours and varying faiths

The cabinet is meeting in Southampton today in the latest of a series of "away days" which has seen ministers meet in Leeds, Birmingham and Liverpool to show the regions the government is working for them.

There's been some debate recently over the fact that the Mayor of London, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister all went to Bournville School, Birmingham and that almost the entire Cabinet did their university studies in Birmingham too. When we turned the question to the public, we registered overwhelming resentment. The idea of being ruled by an unrepresentative lot, both ge...

Gordon Brown is in Birmingham - a little too close for comfort some might say. The Prime Minister and the cabinet will be meeting today at the ICC for the first time since the recess to discuss the current crises gripping both the country and the Labour party. Todays cabinet meeting is the first time the cabinet it