How Birmingham became Britain’s scapegoat
After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second city?
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Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Harry Clarke-Ezzidio is policy correspondent at the New Statesman. He covers a range of areas, including the cost-of-living crisis, levelling up, local government and wider social affairs through reports, features, data-led investigations and interviews.
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