A new voice for
the North East

Monday 21 October 2024
21/10/2024

Author name: Paul Linford

Changing faces of political parties

When Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London in 2000, 14 years after his previous power-base the Greater London Council was abolished by Margaret Thatcher, he began his acceptance speech with the words โ€˜โ€ฆas I was saying before I was rudely interruptedโ€™. As I return to the task of writing about politics for The QT, โ€ฆ

Questions remain over Freeports

Over the past week, a regional story that has been bubbling away for years finally received some wider media attention with the report on the Teesworks project, one of the highest profile regeneration schemes in the UK. The land at the centre of the row was once the home of Redcarโ€™s steelworks, dubbed the largest โ€ฆ