Mayors and high speed rail on the agenda at Conservative conference
Jonathan Walker writes:
The Conservative Party conference has been opened by Charles Barwell, former Constituency Chairman in Birmingham Edgbaston. His was the first speech of the event, but the one I'm looking forward to most today will come from Eric Pickles, the local government secretary.
Pickles is always good value, but today he should be particularly interesting as there are rumours of an announcement about Government plans to create mayors in cities such as Birmingham.
Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, is speaking tomorrow, and he's expected to have news about coalition plans for high speed rail services running from London to Birmingham and further north.
Meriden MP Caroline Spelman is also up tomorrow. However, the most high-profile speech of the day will be George Osborne's speech on the economy.
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