Downtown is always ahead of the game, so this week even before George Osborne identified educational attainment as the biggest issue in the North-South divide,

My 40 years of covering ministerial visits to the North have left me a bit jaded. They are billed as opportunities for ministers to get

The political tide should be running strongly for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. In the week when he has tightened his grip on the party’s organisation,

It’s a good job Justine Greening threw her toys out of the pram, or the North wouldn’t have a single Cabinet Minister after the reshuffle.

The people haven’t risen up At this turn of the year I wait in vain for any sign that the British public has changed its

Liverpool Council will vote on Tuesday to deny the people a vote on whether they want an elected mayor. Council leader Joe Anderson justifies this