Election turnout divide between rich and poor is growing says report

The turnout divide between richer and poorer young voters is deepening, with millennial non-graduates and non-homeowners increasingly unlikely to vote compared to millennial graduates/home-owners. A...

The King of the North launches his third Mayoral campaign

A strange mixture as The Beatles Penny Lane plays over the speakers as we shuffle into the wooden floor room in the first floor...

Scrap the public sector pay cap says Gwynne

Labour MP for Denton and Reddish Andrew Gwynne has called on the government to end its one per cent public sector pay cap. Since 2010,...

Seven regional and City Wide Mayors call for major devolution for City Regions

The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is one of Britain’s seven regional and city-wide Mayors who will  today meet for the first time and...

Brenda Warrington appointed Tameside Council’s first female leader

Tameside Council has confirmed the appointment of Brenda Warrington as the local authority’s first ever female leader. Cllr Warrington also becomes the first female Chair...

BBC to produce five part Thatchers documentary

Marking 40 years since Britain’s first female prime minister rocketed to power in 1979, the BBC has announced that it is to produce a...

Hundreds gather for anti semitism rally in Manchester

The event, held on Corporation Street in Manchester on Sunday was a protest condemning anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. It followed compliants  of anti-Semitic behaviour within...

Universal Credit can loosen the grip of poverty, but further reform is needed

Universal Credit has the potential to help families locked in poverty, but the Government must make urgent improvements in its design, funding...

Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey deputises at PM’s Questions and clashes over climate change

Salford MP Rebecca Long Bailey with her leader Jeremy Corbyn at the D-Day commemorations stood in at Prime Minister's Question Time this lunchtime in...

Corbyn promises to give power to the true wealth creators

A Labour government would create a new "Ministry for Employment Rights" in a bid to boost protections for workers, Jeremy Corbyn has announced. Speaking at...