Mayors Andy Burnham and Andy Street may come from different political tribes but you can’t put a cigarette paper between what they want to do for their regions.
The former chancellor is running out of road as former allies in the Commons turn against him.
Scrapping the HS2 link to Leeds is a dangerous move, especially when resentment in the region already simmers at Manchester’s self-promotion.
Defusing quantitative easing and weaning the economy off cheap money will be tough, says editor and publisher Iain Martin in his weekly newsletter for members of Reaction.
From the German elections in Berlin to the party conferences in Brighton and Manchester, it has been a busy week to be a political journalist.
A potential energy crisis, demand for reform in policing and controversial tax hikes will leave Boris Johnson hot under the collar at the annual party conference.
At PMQs, Boris Johnson went some way to correct the government’s communications failures from yesterday, when negotiations with local leaders in Greater Manchester collapsed.
A study published last year which showed that Northerners die much younger than their Southern neighbours prompted a few predictable headlines of outrage, and then
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a bleak long read by their European economics correspondent, Peter S. Goodman, titled “In Britain, Austerity Is
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