I have lived in Salford for 30 years. I was born in a Doncaster mining village. My first job from school was at the coal mine. I feel proud to be working class.
The UK has shifted from an economy that makes useful things, he said, via Thatcher's privatisations and deindustrialisation and 14 years of Tory austerity, to an economy where people who already have assets, get even richer. It was noticeably more pessimistic than Reeves's promise on Tuesday of growth led by AI, a Northern renaissance, and a closer relationship with the EU.
Angeliki Stogia, a Manchester city councillor, was chosen to fight the seat after a hustings event and vote by local members. The byelection was triggered by the resignation of former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne, over ill health. Gwynne remains under parliamentary standards investigation, after a scandal involving a WhatsApp group called Trigger Me Timbers that shared inflammatory comments about constituents, local party members and other MPs, which led to him being suspended by Labour.
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I think perhaps there is some work to be done in supporting and helping our councils to understand what powers they do have. And how they might use them going forward in this new world - where we are beginning to look quite seriously at proper devolution down to parish council level.
Over recent decades ordinary homeowners have increasingly been charged high and escalating amounts of ground rent, leaving them in financial distress and often unable to sell or re-mortgage their homes. Labour made a promise to leaseholders that we would fix this injustice, but ministers are currently subjected to furious lobbying from wealthy investors trying to water this manifesto commitment down.
Lord Mandelson started working for Labour in the 1980s and has been a central figure in the party for decades. He played a key role in the New Labour movement, which saw Sir Tony Blair win a landslide election victory in 1997. The MP for Hartlepool held a number of ministerial roles but was twice forced to resign in scandal.
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On a dreary Saturday morning, they stream in from all over London, hare along Kent's A-roads, pour off Suffolk and Surrey trains, to converge on this primary school. It's the largest venue the volunteers could hire and the corridors, the loos, even the little library with its impressive range of Julia Donaldsons, are all heaving with grownups. We cram into the assembly hall, where the crowd is declared as the biggest turnout in Green history.
