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		<title>Mayors: Why did Cameron&#8217;s project fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone with an interest in politics will have a view on why most large English cities including Birmingham roundly rejected the idea of being governed by an elected mayor. There]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham rejects mayor by a decisive majority</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham’s flirtation with an elected mayor is over for the time being, after the idea was firmly rejected in a referendum. Voters decided they would rather stick with the existing]]></description>
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		<title>Is it all over for the mayoral campaigners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAIN and pessimistic exit polls dampened the hopes of those campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote in yesterday’s elected mayor referendum for Birmingham. Despite a flurry of door-knocking, leafleting and tweeting]]></description>
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		<title>Elected mayors &#8211; it&#8217;s all about the city vision, stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It seems any argument between supporters and opponents of elected mayors sooner or later reaches an impasse when each side declares their preferred model of local governance is ‘more]]></description>
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		<title>Mirza Ahmad: &#8216;I can run Brum as a part-time mayor&#8217;</title>
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		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/mirza-ahmad-i-can-run-brum-as-a-part-time-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirza Ahmad has become the first of Birmingham’s mayoral candidates to suggest that he would be able to combine running the city with a second full time job. Dr Ahmad,]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger than Boris</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/scale-of-the-challenge-report-illustrates-size-of-brum-mayors-job/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/scale-of-the-challenge-report-illustrates-size-of-brum-mayors-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Centre for Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elected Mayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local enterprise partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A timely report from the Centre for Cities spells out the size of the challenge for any new mayors that appear following next week&#8217;s referendum &#8211; none larger it seems]]></description>
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		<title>Labour rebellion prompts re-write of leadership rules</title>
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		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/backbench-labour-rebellion-prompts-hasty-re-write-of-leadership-rules-in-two-jobs-bore-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Bore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Albert Bore is coming under renewed pressure to give up his £60,000-a-year job as chairman of the QE Hospital if he becomes the Labour leader of Birmingham City Council.]]></description>
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		<title>Sion Simon offers mayoral olive branch to sceptical union leaders</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/sion-simon-to-offer-mayoral-olive-branch-to-sceptical-birmingham-trade-union-leaders/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/sion-simon-to-offer-mayoral-olive-branch-to-sceptical-birmingham-trade-union-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sion Simon will promise city council trade unions a “new age of partnership working” if he becomes the elected mayor of Birmingham. In a speech to Birmingham Trades Council, Mr]]></description>
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		<title>Byrne talks strategy while Simon gets back to basics with buses as Labour&#8217;s mayoral tussle hots up</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/byrne-talks-strategy-while-simon-gets-back-to-basics-with-buses-as-labours-mayoral-tussle-hots-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Bore]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gisela Stuart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liam Byrne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Labour’s internal battle to select a candidate to run for mayor of Birmingham is rapidly developing into a clash of contrasting styles, between Sion Simon’s man of the people approach]]></description>
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		<title>Politics &#8216;too important to be left to politicians&#8217;, warns Warwick Commission mayoral study</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/politics-too-important-to-be-left-to-politicians-warns-warwick-commission-mayoral-study/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/politics-too-important-to-be-left-to-politicians-warns-warwick-commission-mayoral-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mayors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gisela Stuart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liam Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sion Simon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most comprehensive study yet conducted into the role that elected mayors could play in major cities poses a huge number of questions, but the general drift of a University]]></description>
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