Article: Beating the drum at the heart of Whitehall; Yesterday's lobbying campaign by West Midlands First brought the region's message to Whitehall. Political Correspondent Chris Gray listened in.

There was something heartening about walking past the metropolitan grandeur of St James's Park into the European Parliament's British offices to find it turned into a branch of the West Midlands.

The Euro-sceptics of the region might imagine the office usually full of EU officials with their minds on intricacies of manoeuvrings in Brussels and Strasbourg.

But yesterday the lunch-time talk was firmly on the practicalities of manufacturing, farming, computing, financial services, arts and everything else that happens in the West Midlands.

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