Perspective : Can Top Manager Put Us in Premier League ; the Government Is Right to Remind Birmingham That It Is Not yet in the Premier League of European Cities, Argues Chief Reporter Paul Dale

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Local Government Minister David Miliband doesn't quite say in an interview with this newspaper today that Birmingham ought to have a directly-elected Mayor.

But the mood music from the Government is clear enough.

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Perspective : Can Top Manager Put Us in Premier League ; the Government Is Right to Remind Birmingham That It Is Not yet in the Premier League of European Cities, Argues Chief Reporter Paul Dale

Ken Livingstone is seen to have made a success of running London, bringing a welcome higher profile to Labour in the capital.

Anyone putting any money on a Tory, a Liberal Democrat or an Independent to beat Ken at the next mayoral elections? No, I thought not.

Birmingham, as the next largest city in the UK, would be an obvious choice to extend the mayoral experiment and might well tip the balance of change in the slow-to-chan...

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