Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backs Oldham MP’s disability equality roadshow
The Labour leader was in Manchester for the launch of the project by Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams.
Getting Whig-gy with it! Party candidate on Manchester comeback and challenging ‘politics of petty differences’
Despite dominating politics in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has been 150 years since the Whig Party contested an election in Manchester – but now they’re back!
Manchester ‘cat crisis’ as bedroom tax forces owners to abandon pets
Bedroom tax is not just hitting Manchester residents hard, but their pets too, as the benefits squeeze makes people feel they have no choice but to abandon their four-legged friends
Bedroom tax vote: Lib Dems jump in bed with Labour as most Manchester MPs say no to Clegg’s ‘cruel’ bill
The bill, which passed 306 to 231 in a debate today in Parliament, will preclude anyone from the Bedroom Tax unless they can be found a smaller home to move to
‘Northern voice’ in national politics: Labour councillor pledges to help Manchester burst ‘Westminster bubble’
Manchester city centre councillor Kevin Peel wants the voices of Mancunians to burst the ‘Westminster Bubble’ – and backed Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister.
Bedroom tax proves Tory taste for ‘unnecessary cruelty’, claims Oldham MP Michael Meacher
Bedroom tax is a ‘cruel, punitive and discriminatory’ policy, claims Oldham MP Michael Meacher in an explosive post on his blog.
Bedroom Tax-tivist who changed name to Axe-the-Tax faces court date to keep Hulme home in rent row
A notorious anti-Bedroom Tax campaigner is set to appear in court over rent arrears – and could face being given the boot from his home.
Vodafone ‘tax dodging’ blockade: Protesters descend on mobile phone store in Manchester
Protesters, who were made up of members from action group UK Uncut and the People’s Assembly, claimed the company have avoided paying any corporation tax since 2011
‘I’d rather DIE than be deported’: Disabled refugee faces David and Goliath battle in bid to stay in Manchester
Manjeet Kaur fled India and arrived in the UK in 2011
Call me ‘Axe-the-tax’: Manchester resident fighting for his home changes name to support appeal on Bedroom tax
River Axe-the-tax changed name by deed poll
Anti-bedroom tax campaigners set to descend on court to help Manchester man battle eviction
The South Manchester man has lived in his home for 12 years