Labour’s Flag Fiasco: A Test of Leadership in Birmingham

I doubt Birmingham Council leader John Cotton is behind this Union Jack fiasco - but he needs to sort out who is...

On the very day Britain marked VJ Day — the day the Second World War was finally won and peace declared — Birmingham City Council decided to start tearing down Union Jacks and St George’s Crosses. Their reasoning? Health and safety. The flags, they said, posed a risk to lampposts collapsing..!!

Yes, you read that right. A city that hasn’t collected the b…