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Jonathan Walker

The Birmingham Post's Political Editor based at Westminster.

Gordon Brown to scrap second home allowance for MPs
Economic Development
Gordon Brown is to scrap second home allowances for MPs in a series of drastic reforms following the controversy over Jacqui Smith鈥檚 expenses claims.
Jacqui Smith stands up to critics in the Commons
Economic Development
Political Editor Jonathan Walker watches Jacqui Smith face MPs in her first Commons appearance since a string of disasters struck the Home Office
Early warning scheme for Government contracts will help 海角视频 firms
Economic Development
British-based manufacturers are to receive advance details of Government contracts, in a bid to help them win billions of pounds worth of business.
Minister raises hope for 拢84m Bournville College plan
Economic Development
Bournville College may know 鈥渨ithin weeks鈥 whether a long-awaited拢84 million rebuild will go ahead,according to the minister responsible.
Budget holds the key to improved transport
Economic Development
Alistair Darling will announce this week whether or not the West Midlands will become a City Region, allowing it to get cash for urgently-needed transport improvements costing up to 拢1 billion.
Middle Quinton eco-town ruling delayed again
Economic Development
A decision on a controversial 6,000-home new town in the heart of Warwickshire has been delayed yet again.
Time to drop congestion charge hopes and fund the Metro, says thinktank
Economic Development
The Government should admit defeat on road pricing and make the money available for projects such as the Midland Metro instead, an influential thinktank has insisted.
Brown 'sorry' as MP Tom Watson fights smeargate battle
Economic Development
Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised yesterday over controversial emails sent by his aide Damian McBride.
Rover enquiry drags on, four years and 拢15m later
Manufacturing
The government is powerless to intervene in a four-year inquiry into the collapse of Rover, which has cost almost 拢15 million and has no end in sight.
Tories pursue West Midlands Minister Tom Watson in email row
Economic Development
Conservatives are gunning for West Midlands Minister Tom Watson, as they called for a search of Downing Street computers to determine who was involved in the 鈥渄irty tricks鈥 scandal which led to the resignation of a senior Number 10 advisor.
Battle of blogs has no winner
Economic Development
For example, as John Major鈥檚 Conservative government went back to basics, political correctness was on the rise in colleges and workplaces across the land.
Cross-party group put Budget demands to Darling
Manufacturing
Alistair Darling must act to help the automotive supply chain when he delivers his budget next week, a cross-party group of MPs has demanded.
Bloggers part in G20 proceedings hailed a success
Economic Development
Political Editor Jonathan Walker talks to West Midlands MP Tom Watson about Downing Street鈥檚 campaign to court a new breed of internet journalist.
Downing Street's attempts to woo the power of the blogger
Economic Development
Many journalists like to imagine they鈥檙e fighting against the establishment, following in the footsteps of Woodward and Bernstein.
MP Lynda Waltho warns National Curriculum is too bloated
Economic Development
The National Curriculum should be cut back to give schools more control over what they teach in the classroom, according to a West Midlands MP.
Fund crisis hits Bournville College and Longbridge plan
Economic Development
College expansion plans threatened by a funding crisis have very little chance of going ahead 鈥 because almost all the money has been spent, it has emerged.
Birmingham Tory education chief raps David Cameron's schools policy
Economic Development
Birmingham鈥檚 Conservative education chief has slammed David Cameron鈥檚 flagship schools policy.
MP demands public report on Staffordshire hospital failings
Economic Development
The NHS official leading a review into shocking failures at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation hospital trust should report his findings in public so he can be quizzed by patients and their families, according to an MP.
Threatened Advantage West Midlands wins PwC inquiry praise
Economic Development
A 拢1 billion development agency which could face the axe at the next election has been praised for creating jobs and wealth in the West Midlands.
Thinktank's relief rate solution to end declining pub numbers
Economic Development
More than 500 West Midlands pubs have been forced out of business by cut-price supermarket beer and unfair taxes, a new study warned today.
Staffordshire MP claims higher expenses than Jacqui Smith
Economic Development
Embattled Home Secretary Jacqui Smith received 拢22,948 from the taxpayer to help pay for her 鈥渟econd home鈥 in Redditch last year, new House of Commons figures have revealed.
Brown steps in to ease pressure on Home Secretary over expenses
Economic Development
Jacqui Smith鈥檚 job appeared secure last night as Gordon Brown stepped in to offer the Home Secretary his full support.
Birmingham Children's Hospital gets a month to prove it has improved
Economic Development
Hospital bosses have less than a month to show they have improved services following a damning report by the official NHS watchdog, according to an MP.
LDV given lifeline by Birmingham City Council
Manufacturing
LDV has been thrown a vital 拢2.5 million lifeline by Birmingham City Council in a major step towards survival for the cash-strapped van maker and 7,000 jobs.