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Author: BAGEHOT
Go to Birmingham to see how the West Midlands mayoral race is going (the result will be decided on May 4) – and to find out what’s happening in the most important swing area in the general election on June 8. When I asked for a return ticket to Birmingham, the ticket seller replied dryly, “No one wants a one-way ticket.” After decades of mismanagement and industrial decline, the city is stumbling back to life: New Street train station is a bustling shopping center. A new tram service connects the city center to the Black Country. The Jaguar Land Rover car factory is working overtime to produce four-wheel-drive status symbols for China. But the scars of years of decline are still visible everywhere.
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