Full Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire mayor results as Burnham and Brabin win on swing to Labour
Andy Burnham and Tracy Brabin have been emphatically re-elected as mayors of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, following…
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How my campaign won the inaugural West Yorkshire mayoral election
The campaign I set out to run when I decided to stand last year was a distant memory…
Labour must champion our Northern mill towns if we are to regain power
As many of us here in Huddersfield, Batley and other mill towns of the North watch the government’s…
Labour has enough to worry about next year – a plot to deselect Hilary Benn would be petty and pointless
I am “a Benn, not a Bennite”, Hilary famously declared when he fought the by-election that brought him…
Hundreds line the streets to pay tribute on day of Jo Cox’s funeral
Hundreds of people lined the streets of Batley to pay tribute to Jo Cox today as she was…
I am not factional but we need a leader who can help us win – anything else would be a betrayal of our party
I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t involved in the Labour Party. I grew up in…
This evil crime stole the life of a brilliant MP and was an attack on our democracy
MPs are all in it for themselves, goes the claim. Politicians don’t understand the lives of ordinary people,…
Labour MP Jo Cox dies after horrific attack outside constituency surgery
Labour MP Jo Cox died this afternoon after suffering a brutal attack in West Yorkshire. The Batley and…
