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In the four years since the Conservatives' election victory – marked with promises of 'levelling up' – the landscape of Britain has shifted, but perhaps not in the ways many had hoped. Instead, as Keir Starmer said today and as our earlier…
The Labour mayor of the North of Tyne has announced he is leaving Labour, and is likely to run against the party's newly selected candidate for the wider north-east mayoral role he was controversially barred from. The party's decision to…
Jamie Driscoll has said he has received "literally thousands of messages of support" following the decision to exclude him from the longlist to be the Labour candidate for the new North East mayoralty. The move has attracted considerable…
The Labour mayor for the North of Tyne region Jamie Driscoll has been blocked by the party from standing for a new mayoral role covering the north-east of England. LabourList has seen a letter that appears to be from a party official to…
Several Black Labour MPs have reportedly signed a letter demanding "urgent action" from the leadership on anti-Black racism and the implementation of the recommendations set out in the Forde report. Channel 4 News reported on Thursday that…
We need to be honest: devolution with a Conservative government just can’t make the difference it should. Yes, there are success stories – you only need to get on a bus in Manchester or Leeds to see that. But in too many parts of England…
There are moments in our shared history when the tide turns against those in charge. These are moments when the moral destitution of their regime is laid bare, where the poverty of their ideas is unmasked. At such moments we may clearly…
Labour's Stephen Morgan has accused the government of "holding back" children and communities after analysis of past GCSE results revealed large disparities in outcomes in different areas of the country. The research by the Labour Party…
The proportion of students receiving A or A* grades in their A-levels has fallen a third quicker in the North East of England than the South East, according to analysis by the Labour Party of the latest round of results. Commenting as…
Nick Forbes, who represents local government on Labour's national ruling body, has been deselected as a council candidate in Newcastle, where he has been council leader since 2011. The councillor, an ally of Keir Starmer on Labour's…
Keir Starmer has argued that the government failed "the first test of levelling up" with its integrated rail plan and accused Boris Johnson of betraying the voters in the North of England after ministers broke key infrastructure pledges. In…
Results have started to emerge for the May 2021 elections with a disappointing outcome for Labour in the Sunderland City Council contest that saw the party lose nine seats on the local authority in the North East of England. After the…
