“We support Labour, we’re Labour all the time, we have always been for Labour,” says Hamid. But it is the West Midlands race that many Conservatives will be watching most closely. Unite blocks funds for Labour's West Midlands mayoral candidate Read moreThe Conservative candidate in the West Midlands, former John Lewis chief executive Andy Street, was given the star treatment at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham in October, and has received a string of visits from senior ministers. In England as a whole it’s £8,816 and in the West Midlands it’s even less than that. “The Labour vote in Labour areas, which is most of the West Midlands, is holding up.

Source: The Guardian April 15, 2017 06:56 UTC