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When I was growing up in the North East in the 1980s, unemployment wasn’t just an economic consideration – it was a part of life. At school, in our family, that sense of lost opportunity was in the air. Tory recessions, combined with major…
Most people will be familiar with The Full Monty, the film and musical about laid-off Sheffield steel workers, scratching around to make a living, who end up becoming male strippers. It is obviously meant to be an upbeat and inspirational…
There are towns and cities in this country that carry a particular weight of meaning. The Battle of Orgreave, one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/85 miners’ strike. The Shrewsbury building workers' strikes of 1972, which saw…
Keir Starmer has declared that the government has been "treating local communities, particularly in the Midlands, North West and North East, and their leaders with contempt" in the coronavirus pandemic. In a 'Call Keir' session on LBC radio…
Business Secretary Alok Sharma has accused journalists of engaging in "gotcha" lines of questioning and emulating a "quiz show" when asking government ministers to clarify new Covid-19 restrictions in the UK. The cabinet member made the…
15 Labour MPs representing constituencies in the North East of England have written to the Health Secretary to seek urgent clarification on new Covid restrictions announced in the region. In a letter sent to Matt Hancock today, the group of…
Dominic Cummings has betrayed the very people in the North East who put their faith in his campaign to win the election in 2019. Coronavirus has exposed the regional inequalities that our government has enabled over the last ten years –…
Tomorrow's Budget will take place in extraordinary circumstances – with the world’s first pandemic in over a century looming and all the signs pointing towards a major global economic downturn. Coronavirus is going to need urgent action…
Since being selected as the PPC for North East Derbyshire, we have had thousands of conversations across this ex-mining community where we saw the seat return a Tory MP at the last election for the first time since 1935. What is becoming…
On Thursday 2nd May, Middlesbrough, an industrial town in the North East, returned an independent mayor – a swing away from Labour – with a huge majority. On the morning after the dreadful night before, 12 of our 32 councillors – some in…
Brexit is the greatest issue facing our country since the Second World War. The decision to Leave the EU also has major consequences for the North East of England. A Labour heartland region, but also one that voted for Brexit. We respect…
We learnt it when James Watt invented his steam engine. I'm talking about the great lesson, which tells us technological revolutions unleash forces that shape our economy and society - and unless properly guided and regulated, they can…
