Rebecca Long-Bailey ‘deeply saddened’ by suspension from Labour Party
Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has said she is “deeply saddened” to have been suspended from the Labour Party after rebelling
Manchester activists urge MP to support the hunger crisis in East Africa
(Abimbola Ajala and Michael Sheridan in the House of Commons)
Rights go to Anna Gordon.
A fantastic year in politics? How did your Greater Manchester MP vote?
Last December, Boris Johnson swept the Conservatives to a majority in Parliament. A year on, how did our Manchester MPs
In search of the new Attlee: Labour must abandon Corbynism and respect the opposition to stand any chance of future success
Labour is in dire need of new fresh leadership after Jeremy Corbyn led the party to their worst result since 1935 back in December. The new leader will be confirmed on Saturday as either Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy or Rebecca Long-Bailey, but can any of them really become the next Clement Attlee?
Reaction: Labour hustings comes to Manchester as battle to replace Corbyn intensifies
It will not have been lost on many observers that the seemingly endless line of nationwide Labour Hustings have been consistent with a party that looks set to back a radical redistribution of power and opportunity away from the clutches of Whitehall.
The race to replace Jeremy Corbyn: What we learned from the Labour leadership hustings
There seemed to be a different atmosphere down at ACC Liverpool at the first in a line of hustings which will take place before the next Labour leader is announced on April 4th
General Election 2019: Where to now for Labour?
The Corbyn experiment has been going for four years now where Labour has moved unapologetically to the left. While he has successfully grown the party membership especially among young people, two electoral defeats and being on the losing side of the Brexit referendum must signal that this experiment has failed.
General Election 2019: Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey retains seat in Salford and Eccles in ‘bittersweet’ victory
Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey has described her third win of the Salford and Eccles seat as “bittersweet” in the 2019 General Election.
Trade Union Act would be repealed under Labour, confirms Rebecca Long-Bailey
The Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey – has reconfirmed her party’s commitment to repeal the Trade Union Act of 2016 and to set up a new Ministry of Labour.
‘Uncomfortable, inspired and empowered’: Represent exhibition launches at People’s History Museum
The People’s History Museum’s new exhibition, Represent! Voices 100 Years On, launched last week as activists gathered on stage to recreate an infamous photo taken of suffragettes gathering before the Black Friday protest in 1910.
Greater Manchester sees sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents after Brexit vote to leave EU
Since the Brexit vote there have been 152 incidents of anti-Semitic hate crime across Greater Manchester, while close to 60% of all anti-Semitic hate crime committed in 2016 took place after June 23.