Coventry MPs have welcomed a dramatic U-turn that means the NHS will now fund lifesaving operations for two seriously ill city patients. Geoffrey Robinson and Bob Ainsworth both lobbied the health secretary Andrew Lansley and the NHS after the Telegraph...

A string of heavyweights aims to copy Boris Johnson by launching careers outside Westminster, including former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, ex-defence secretary Bob Ainsworth and former Europe minister Gisela Stuart. The sudden enthusiasm for...

Editor, In today’s Birmingham Post (January 26), you report the campaign of MP Bob Ainsworth urging ministers to intervene to stop GPs using expensive 084 or 085 numbers for patient calls, so that patients do not pay more than the cost of a local call...

Bob Ainsworth urged Ministers to intervene following reports that more than one in 10 surgeries are still using the high-cost numbers. Leading a House of Commons debate, he said: “No one should pay enhanced charges to access their GP.” A survey by...

Bob Ainsworth (Lab, Coventry North East) urged ministers to intervene following reports that more than one in ten surgeries are still using the high-cost 084 or 085 numbers. Leading a House of Commons debate, he said: “No-one should pay enhanced...

"We are an Olympic city and we didn't need an elected mayor to achieve that." But Labour MP for Coventry North East, Bob Ainsworth, is one of those to express an interest in the role. The former defence secretary said: "The current system of running...