With General Election day rolling steadily closer, it’s looking increasingly as though Scotland – and the Scottish National Party in particular – could have a decisive influence on its outcome.

Ten years to the day since trans people were given the right to change their legal gender, MM caught up with Christine Burns MBE on how she managed to push through the pivotal bill.

With parliament dissolved, all MPs are returning to their constituencies. The door knocking, letter dropping and sign erecting begins.

Millions will be watching Salford tonight as the leaders of the country’s biggest political parties take part in the first televised debate of the election season.

As #EndTamponTax does the rounds on Twitter and the petition ‘Stop taxing periods. Period’ gains more than 200,000 the University of Manchester is looking into ways to make sanitary products cheaper for their female students.

Three local politicians will come head-to-head when they present their parties’ education manifestos to the public in preparation for May’s general election.

After speaking to dozens upon dozens of people, most notably former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and the Pirate Party’s Loz Kaye, to get their views on the drugs legalisation debate, MM lays bare the truths of these conversations.

Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.

Rifkind vacated the Kensington seat in west London last week after a hidden-camera TV documentary filmed the 68-year-old and Labour MP Jack Straw apparently offering their services to a private firm for cash.

The Labour Party made mistakes with their immigration policy during their stay in power, according to Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a talk in Wigan.

A Manchester councillor has pledged to ensure every person in the city centre is within four minutes of life-saving defibrillator equipment.