David Miliband tells me his friend James Purnell is right to spend some time on the backbenches...
"Afghanistan has defeated the British in the past. It has defeated the Russians. I believe it will defeat Americans with their British and European allies. Our troops should not be there.....
But there are certain things you can't really blame him for. Having poor eyesight. Having poor handwriting. Refusing to let his staff write or endlessly check his personal letters before ...
"This is a little like playing Manchester United - you get a couple extra minutes when you play them..."
Update on progress towards a 'city-region' of Greater Manchester - with its own version of Transport for London...
This is terrible. Can anything be done to avoid this catastrophe?...
The government is currently asking the regions for its views on what its priorities for high-speed rail should be. And I understand they will take seriously any suggestion that a Mancheste...
By Friday lunchtime, we will know whether the National Football Museum is staying in Preston or moving to Manchester...
Later, executive member Mike Amesbury addressed other Labour members as 'comrades'. This caused much amusement among the Lib Dems. They pointed out that they described each other as 'colleagues',...
A TORY party member arrested over claims he failed to pay for a £150 bottle of champagne has admitted behaving 'rather foolishly'. It was revealed in yesterday's M.E.N. that Philip Whitti...
CHANNEL M is broadcasting a live debate on the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Panellists include Susan Williams, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Bolton West, Graham ...
AROUND 100 headteachers in 'failing' schools face the axe under Conservative proposals being announced today. All schools that have been in special measures for one year by next summer, ...
POLICE should be given more power to identity criminals to the public, the Conservatives claimed. The Tories said the rights of some lawbreakers were being put above public safety.
UNION leaders have warned there could be strike action if Tory plans to introduce a pay freeze on public sector workers go ahead. Shadow chancellor George Osborne, MP for Tatton, told the part...
TORY education spokesman Michael Gove accused local authorities and trade unions of 'conspiring' to protect failing schools. Speaking at a fringe meeting on education at Manchester Town ...
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