The Secretary of State for Business dropped a clanger this week, referring to Tory peer Ben Houchen as the Tyne Tees Mayor. It was a slip which drew the inevitable suggestion that perhaps the Conservatives weren’t really paying attention to the North. The Labour Party, on the other hand, confirmed it most definitely was paying …
The last time Labour won Blackpool South, the party won 270 other constituencies. It was 1997 and Labour took 179 more than all other parties combined. Tony Blair walked down a flag-festooned Downing Street later that sunny May day. The debate about whether Britain is approaching a 1992 knife-edge election, where a surprisingly resilient Conservative …
Social media and some pockets of the press were awash with Islamophobic and racially charged comments about Sadiq Khan last week, holding him responsible for violent crimes in London in a way that no white Metropolitan Mayor or Police Commissioner faced during their election campaigns. Numerous journalists working for some of the most prominent news …
A countryside body in the North has issued a warning in the wake of the local and Mayoral election results that traditional political allegiances can no longer be taken for granted. Henk Geertsema, Acting Regional Director at Country Land and Business Association North (CLA) said: “Rural communities feel unseen, they feel unheard, and for the …
Around 40 Labour supporters have gathered in Hexham on a dampish Sunday — just three days after their local election triumph. No bank holiday weekend off for these doorstep canvassers — there’s still much work to do. An ordinary looking chap strolls up accompanied by another ordinary looking chap. One is Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, …
As we approach devolution and the mayoral votes, there’s a lot of chatter about what it means to be part of our great region and how we can build a more resilient economy and society. But North East identity is complex. Our history is one of greatness, trauma and bitter sibling rivalry between cities, towns …
The Conservative Party faces complete annihilation in the North East in the next general election, according to one of the country’s leading political pollsters which delivers seat-by-seat analysis. It says the Tories could lose all their gains of 2019 in our region — and more. The most surprising seat to fall would be Hexham, says …
Having observed the rise and fall of several governments over the course of my career, it seems to me that there always comes a point in the lifetime of an administration where all events conspire to the one end of inevitable electoral defeat. I witnessed it with the long, slow demise of John Major’s Government …
Multi-millionaire landlord and side-hustle Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut National Insurance by 2% by way of compensation for the cost of, well, bleedin’ everything. That’s a whopping £8 a week for someone on average UK wage, while those earning less than £15,000 have found themselves with an extra £1.63 a week. Oh wondrous, magnanimous overlord! …
The plight of the Conservative Party increasingly resembles that of the hapless cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Just like him, the Tories keep devising cunning new plans to arrest the remorseless progress of Road Runner Keir Starmer. But we all know the Acme anvil they have just suspended from a rocket-powered kite is about 10 …
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