Kier Starmer announces senior Shadow Cabinet Positions with Wigan’s Lisa Nandy Shadow Foreign Secretary

Keir Starmer has today announced senior members of his Shadow Cabinet who will be charged with responding to the coronavirus outbreak. Lisa Nandy will be...

Kier Starmer-Andy Burnham is rights to stick up for his community

Labour Party leader Sir Kier Starmer says that the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham 'is quite right to stick up for his community. Interviewed in...

Angela Smith will stand in key Tory battleground against Sir Graham Brady

Angela Smith will stand in the key Conservative battleground, Altrincham and Sale West, against Sir Graham Brady in the next general election. Former Labour MP...

Manchester study asks Are ethnic and religious minority voters key to election success?

New research led by experts from The University of Manchester, the University of St Andrews, the University of Essex and the University of Nottingham...

Dennett wins in Salford and takes a swipe at Labour leadership

Paul Dennett has been re elected as Salford’s Mayor with an increased majority Dennett took 59 per cent of the vote in the first round...

We need to encourage more people from my and other diverse backgrounds into politics...

Deputy Labour leader and Greater Manchester MP Angela Rayner has said that We need to encourage more people from my and other diverse backgrounds...

Row as Racist leaflet published by Max Mosley in Manchester by election is discovered

The former Formula One boss Max Mosley published a racist leaflet for a candidate standing in a 1961 by election in Hulme. The leaflet said...

If this Parliament is to support Brexit,then it must pass a withdrawal bill says...

In a Commons statement on her withdrawal agreement bill, Theresa May called for ‘compromise on all sides’ in order that Britain can leave the...

A blue in a sea of Red?

It's a decade since the Conservative Party had a councillor on Manchester's Council, even then it was a bit of a misdemeanour,34-year-old legal executive,Faraz...

Top 10% of households nearly 900 times wealthier than poorest 10%

Only 4% of people think the distribution of wealth in the UK will become fairer in the next 10 years Wealth inequality in the UK...