Boundaries
Situated to the south west of Birmingham city centre, this is a neat and mostly middle-class constituency, with parks, Warwickshire's cricket ground and two grammar schools. It was a safe Conservative seat for decades, but some areas have pockets of considerable deprivation, helping Labour hold the seat since 1997. It contains the University of Birmingham's main campus, and most of the student halls.
Read more about this topic: Birmingham Edgbaston (UK Parliament Constituency)
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“It is the story-teller’s task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
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“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)