Last year, I set out to trial how to use deliberative democracy technology to transform the way we do politics. The experience deployed NESTA's D-CENT technology to gather ideas and debate for a plan to transform the West Midlands. Here's the website: https://westmids.peoplesplan.co.uk

We've set up a Facebook page for our new website on the West Midlands People's plan.

You can find the Facebook page by clicking here.

There are already a few videos on there to give you some more information on the project.

Make sure you like the page and share with friends so you can keep in touch and help get everyone involved!

Best,

Liam

Friends,

I'd like to share with you all a short video I made to launch the West Midland's People's Plan.

You can watch the video by clicking here.

Liam

I'm afraid the rumours are true!

I'm really grateful to friends across the region who asked me to stand to be the Labour candidate for the West Midlands Metro Mayor. But, I can confirm today what some of you know already...

Before he died, I'd spent many hours talking things over with legendary Sandwell leader, Cllr Darren Cooper.

Dear friends,

I thought you might be interested in an exciting new opportunity for 16-25 years olds to gain a free level 1 qualification in Sports Leadership.

The course is being offered by Sport 4 Life, a local Birmingham charity who aim to change the lives of disadvantaged young people between the ages of 12 and 25.

Dear friends,

I thought you might be interested to know just how much funding we've received from the National Lottery here in Hodge Hill.

Since 1994, Hodge Hill has received a total of  £22,140,552 million in National Lottery funding, benefiting 422 local projects.

Since July 2004, we've received £5,964,153 through 260 grants.

Lord Sugar’s enterprise revolution could create up to 800,000 new jobs around Britain, according to new figures published by Liam Byrne MP today.

The Apprentice star has been appointed by the Government to encourage more people to start their own business all over Britain.

Great entrepreneurs change history – by inventing the future. We need to help them or we’ll fall behind.

Britain’s enterprise economy risks going into reverse as new House of Commons library figures commissioned by Liam Byrne MP, reveals over 1 million people have left ‘entrepreneurial activity’ in the last three years.

Here are the three headlines from my research which I published today alongside the launch of my new book Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain