Political Reporter @bbcmtd #politicsmidlands Often found watching @WiganWarriorsRL & @ytfc or riding a bike of some sort. @robmayor.bsky.social
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Rob Mayor retweeted
8 Jun 2025
The Chairman of @BCFC Tom Wagner welcomes government funding for a link from the tram network to the club’s planned new stadium.
Will it kick-start economic growth and regeneration in East Birmingham? #PoliticsMidlands begins at 10am on BBC1
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Rob Mayor retweeted
8 Jun 2025
Coming up next on BBC1 join @ElizabethGlinka and guests @AllisonCGardner @bhatti_saqib and Sharon Yates from @GMB_union for #PoliticsMidlands
On today’s agenda: Brum Sports Quarter, pottery energy costs, Reform defectors. Watch now on @BBCiPlayer
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Rob Mayor retweeted
18 May 2025
Coming up next on BBC1 join @ElizabethGlinka and guests @PauletteHamilto @benadams4staffs and @a_adeyemo for #PoliticsMidlands
On today’s agenda: Bin strikes, maternity services and assisted dying. Watch now on @BBCiPlayer
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Rob Mayor retweeted
17 Apr 2025
FINAL SHOW KLAXON!!
what a ride it has been ❤️
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Rob Mayor retweeted
13 Apr 2025
A plan to build a relief road around Shrewsbury is one of the big issues in the council elections in Shropshire on May 1st.
@RobJTrigg asked people in the town for their views. #PoliticsMidlands begins at 10am on BBC1
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Rob Mayor retweeted
13 Apr 2025
Coming up next on BBC1 join @ElizabethGlinka and guests @PreetKGillMP @EllieChowns and @GullisJonathan for #PoliticsMidlands
On today’s agenda: Bin strikes and this year’s shire county elections. Watch on @BBCiPlayer
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Rob Mayor retweeted
13 Apr 2025
“Unite has got to bring an end to the strikes … it is not right that a small number of people are holding 1.2 million residents to ransom”
Edgbaston MP @PreetKGillMP calls for an end to Birmingham’s bin dispute #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
13 Apr 2025
What would it sound like if we asked a soprano to sing while she’s driven over the potholes in Staffordshire’s roads?
@jen_aitken took Denise Leigh out for a spin for today’s #PoliticsMidlands. Hear the results at 10am on BBC1
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Rob Mayor retweeted
26 Jan 2025
If you missed today’s #PoliticsMidlands with @ElizabethGlinka then you can catch up with it anytime you like on the @BBCiPlayer Just follow the link … 📺 📱 💻
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26 Jan 2025
“We can’t have sensitivities around this. I think stop and search is a very valuable tool for the police”
Meriden & Solihull East MP @bhatti_saqib supports using stop and search to bring down the rate of knife crime in the West Midlands. #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
26 Jan 2025
Putting education about knife crime on the national curriculum would help reduce it, according Mark Brindley.
Mr Brindley is a trustee of the @JB_FoundationUK which aims to support young people at risk of engaging in criminal activity #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
26 Jan 2025
“It isn’t just about stop and search it’s about how do we have more police presence”
Edgbaston MP @PreetKGillMP gives her view on bringing down the high rates of knife crime in the West Midlands #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
26 Jan 2025
“We can’t have sensitivities around this. I think stop and search is a very valuable tool for the police”
Meriden & Solihull East MP @bhatti_saqib supports using stop and search to bring down the rate of knife crime in the West Midlands. #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
19 Jan 2025
“Does the Deputy Prime Minister @AngelaRayner just have it in for district councils?”
“No, of course not,” says West Brom MP @SarahCoombesWB as she defends Labour’s plans to reorganise local government in England’s shire counties #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
19 Jan 2025
“If you look at the opinion polls currently we are very much neck-and-neck with Labour and Conservatives”
West Midlands Director @PeteDurnell bristles at the idea that Reform UK are a “minor party” #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
19 Jan 2025
“I can’t help thinking that Reform is a one man cult”
Wyre Forest Conservative MP
@Mark4WyreForest says the party have to prove there’s more to it than just Nigel Farage. #PoliticsMidlands
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Rob Mayor retweeted
19 Jan 2025
Coming up next on BBC1 join @ElizabethGlinka and guests @SarahCoombesWB @Mark4WyreForest and @PeteDurnell for #PoliticsMidlands
On today’s agenda: Grooming gang inquiries, Reform UK and revolting boroughs. Watch now on @BBCiPlayer
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Rob Mayor retweeted
9 Jan 2025
Council asks for 2025 elections to be postponed bbc.in/40o2eib
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Rob Mayor retweeted
15 Dec 2024
Our guests today @HelenMorganMP @ShaunDaviesMP and @morton_wendy tell @robmayor what their personal political highlights of 2024 were in today’s #PoliticsMidlands
Elections loom large when it comes to their choices. See you again in 2025!
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Rob Mayor retweeted
15 Dec 2024
“We’d really like to see a route between Market Drayton and Telford.”
Lib Dem MP @HelenMorganMP says councils should be given the power and the money to decide where bus routes go. #PoliticsMidlands
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