The Labour leader was in Manchester for the launch of the project by Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams.

MM went along to the Communist League offices in central Manchester to talk to Peter Clifford, their candidate for the May 2017 election.

Professor Mel Ainscow, co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education at the University of Manchester, has highlighted the borough’s outstanding exam results, which make up some of the best in the country, and puts the success of the area down to the central role of local government.

Although votes won’t be cast until May 2017, the race to become Greater Manchester’s first “Metro Mayor” has certainly begun.

George Osborne is seeking to revive his political career by keeping the Northern Powerhouse dream alive.

The Boundary Commission, which is carrying out the review in a bid to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600, says the number of constituencies in the North West must reduce from 75 to 68 and that, by law, each must contain between 71,031 and 78,507 electors.

A Manchester MP is calling on families in Trafford to start the conversation about organ donation.

Burnham beat off competition from interim Mayor Tony Lloyd and Bury South MP Ivan Lewis.

Mr Leech, who now represents Didsbury West as a councillor on Manchester City Council, is raising a Liberal Democrat big tent in the hopes of uniting all pro-European Mancunians to mobilise for a general election challenge to Brexit.

The rally, organised by Momentum Manchester, was in response to Corbyn facing calls to resign from his own MPs.

There has been much discussion on why the Remain side – who were almost universally tipped to win – ended up losing the vote.