Legislation on increasing flexible working has failed, new research finds

Research unveiled this week at the British Sociological Association conference in Belfast has found that there has been no significant overall increase in the number...

£8 billion funding black hole by 2025 will swallow up popular council services

Communities may suffer the loss of leisure and cultural facilities, fewer bus services, unkempt parks and green spaces and see fly-tippers go...

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...

Local government will face £25bn funding gap by 2025

The report by the TUC and the New Economics Foundation has found that most councils will be left worse off by funding reforms and that...

Boris Johnson must target Northern Rugby League Towns to win general election, says Tory...

The election battlegrounds are no longer Midlands marginals like Nuneaton but Northern and Midlands towns with strong working class roots and Labour traditions, but...

Kier Starmer leading the race to become Labour leader over Long Bailey says poll

Keir Starmer is currently the favourite among Labour members to replace Jeremy Corbyn, a new poll has found . The poll by YouGov for the Economic and...

Burnham-“Time for a daily Coronavirus press conference

The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is calling for a daily televised press conference on the Coronavirus outbreak. Writing on twitter this morning he...

Labour values on unity and compassion are seeing us through coronavirus crisis and must...

Ahead of Labour Connected - a four day online event taking place instead of Labour’s Annual Conference - Labour’s Deputy Leader and Greater Manchester...

Labour reveals vast scale of cuts to services for young people under the Tories

Labour are warning that the Conservatives are set to break their manifesto promise to fund youth services, failing a generation of young people. New analysis...

Rayner sacked as Labour Party chairman after election results

Greater Manchester MP and Labour Party Deputy leader Angela Rayner has been sacked as party chairman and campaigns coordinator in the aftermath of election...