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Jonathan Walker

The Birmingham Post's Political Editor based at Westminster.

Inquiry blasts Government over delays in aid to auto industry
Economic Development
The Government was today accused of putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk by failing to give the automotive industry the support it needs to survive the recession.
Learning & Skills Council slammed in report over colleges' lost funding
Economic Development
Colleges have lost millions of pounds because of 鈥渃atastrophic mismanagement鈥 by the government agency responsible for funding them, a damning report warns today.
Mandelson insists Government did not interfere with running of JLR
Manufacturing
The Government has never tried to interfere in the management of Jaguar Land Rover, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has insisted.
Birmingham weighs up bid for 海角视频 City of Culture status
Economic Development
Birmingham has been urged to bid for the title of Britain鈥檚 first City of Culture - after losing out聽to Liverpool in a contest for a similar accolade.
Fear of failure no reason to avoid city of culture contest
Economic Development
Liverpool has benefitted enormously from its year in the spotlight as European Capital of Culture.
Patience is key to recoup bank bail-out cash
Economic Development
Warnings that every household in Britain has made a theoretical loss of 拢1,000 on the bank bail-out sound worrying, but they should not be a cause for panic.
Tory pledge to increase overseas aid
Economic Development
The British aid budget would be used to send young people to carry out voluntary work in some of the world鈥檚 poorest nations, under proposals unveiled by Birmingham MP Andrew Mitchell.
Report calls for warring couples to have 'cooling off' period before divorce
Economic Development
The senior Conservative who warned parts of Birmingham experienced crushing poverty has called for a new measures to strengthen marriage, including a cooling-off period for couples considering divorce.
MPs call for NEC stop for planned high-speed rail route
Economic Development
Planned high-speed rail services to the city must include a stop at Birmingham International and NEC, MPs have warned.
City leaders divided over route of a high-speed rail link
Economic Development
Birmingham鈥檚 political and business leaders are locked in a furious behind-the-scenes row over plans to bring high- speed rail services to the city.
High speed rail must go north to be viable
Economic Development
The Government inquiry into a new high speed rail service between London and Birmingham is to call for a nationwide network taking passengers to Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
Jonathan Walker: Labour's healthy band of rebels
Economic Development
There aren鈥檛 many loyal Labour MPs left in Birmingnam.
Burden defends absence from Commons statement on Rover
Economic Development
The MP representing Longbridge, former home of MG Rover, is locked in a bitter row with political rivals after he failed to attend a Commons statement about the carmaker.
Former MG Rover directors making most of inquiry publishing delay
Economic Development
As the region waits for a formal verdict on how MG Rover met its end, we are treated to the unedifying spectacle of various parties squabbling over what went on five years ago.
Lord Mandelson gives hope in MG Rover inquiry row
Economic Development
The results of a four-year inquiry into the collapse of MG Rover could be published before the end of the month, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has revealed.
Ministers face MG Rover payout fury
Economic Development
Former MG Rover workers will have to wait until the end of a fresh inquiry into the fate of the Birmingham carmaker before a long-awaited 拢16 million compensation fund can be released, Ministers have said.
Health Secretary to reconsider call for Stafford Hospital inquiry
Economic Development
Health Secretary Andy Burnham has told the Birmingham Post he will reconsider the case for a full independent inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Labour unable to avoid reducing spending\n
Economic Development
In the current economic climate, measures to reduce poverty and regenerate neglected areas of the West Midlands are more vital than ever.
Solihull MP taking fight to Commons over plans to transfer high-risk births to Heartlands or Good Hope
Economic Development
The campaign to protect maternity services in Solihull has reached the House of Commons after an MP demanded that health chiefs scrap plans to transfer pregnant women to Birmingham.
Axing of regeneration schemes anger Midland MPs
Economic Development
Midlands MPs have expressed anger over the announcement that funding for more than 100 regeneration schemes is to be axed.
More than 100 West Midlands regeneration projects axed
Economic Development
More than 100 regeneration schemes have been axed across the West Midlands, after the region鈥檚 economic development agency was forced to cut budgets by 拢70 million.
Birmingham swine flu cases soar because of close-knit families, says minister
Economic Development
The spread of swine flu in Birmingham has been more severe because of the high number of close-knit families in the city, the Health Secretary has said.
Swine flu inquiry essential to ensure our health services are ready
Economic Development
Health Secretary Andy Burnham鈥檚 prediction that 100,000 people a day could catch swine flu comes as a shock.
Officials deny threat to high speed rail link for Birmingham
Economic Development
Ambitious plans for a high speed rail line between London and Birmingham have been thrown into doubt following reports Department for Transport was facing a 拢30 billion funding gap.