12th April, 2013, 12:21 pm South Shields by-election date confirmed Mark Ferguson Share this article: The Labour Party will be moving the writ on Monday for the South Shields by-election – after David Miliband formally resigns as an MP. The election date will be set for May 2nd. Tags: By-election / South Shields / Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson Subscribe to our daily email More from LabourList News Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the prime minister was busy working alongside European… Sebastian Salek 12th December, 2025, 6:00 am Comment ‘Labour should call time on the unfair system that is hurting pubs’ These past two weeks have been full of deja vu for me. Exactly five years ago I was… Dr Liz Hind 12th December, 2025, 6:00 am Comment ‘Labour’s mental health review needs to reframe overdiagnosis’ We’re having the wrong debate about mental health diagnosis. Following Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review into the… Andrew Grey 11th December, 2025, 2:00 pm
Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson
News Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the prime minister was busy working alongside European… Sebastian Salek 12th December, 2025, 6:00 am
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Comment ‘Labour’s mental health review needs to reframe overdiagnosis’ We’re having the wrong debate about mental health diagnosis. Following Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review into the… Andrew Grey 11th December, 2025, 2:00 pm
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