Local elections 2024 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… Tom Belger 4th May, 2024, 3:08 pm
Comment 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… Tracy Brabin 14th May, 2021, 2:45 pm
Comment 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… Hugh Goulbourne 29th March, 2021, 2:45 pm
Comment 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… Peter Edwards 21st November, 2016, 3:00 pm
News 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… Sarah Pine 15th July, 2016, 5:38 pm
Comment 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… Jamie Hanley 4th July, 2016, 11:00 am
Comment 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,… Peter Edwards 18th June, 2016, 7:00 am
News 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… Peter Edwards 16th June, 2016, 7:22 pm