Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’?
recovery after it [declared bankruptcy](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/councils-in-england-in-crisis-as-birmingham-declares-itself-bankrupt) in 2023 – will have to remain at the local authority beyond 2028.
One of the people hoping to capitalise on Labour’s perceived failures in Birmingham