Category: North of England

Labour’s Claire Ward elected first mayor of East Midlands as Sunak gets boost in Tees Valley after Tory losses – live

Party source describes region as ‘beating heart of general election battleground’ as prime minister says Labour threw ‘lot of mud’Local elections 2024: full council results for EnglandAnalysis: Blackpool...

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Clustering of AI firms in south and east of England will foil levelling up – report

Hi-tech ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London risks deeper regional inequalities, says thinktankInvestments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are “profoundly skewed”...

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No compelling examples of what levelling up has delivered, watchdog finds

Public accounts committee report shows hardly any of 71 projects due to be completed this month are on trackRishi Sunak’s levelling up agenda is beset by an “absolutely astonishing” level of delay, and the...

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Fewer than 20% of levelling up projects completed in England, figures show

Exclusive: Plans either shelved or stalled despite being part of flagship policy promise at last electionFewer than a fifth of the projects approved by Michael Gove to improve towns across England have been completed, the...

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Rochdale byelection: Keir Starmer apologises after George Galloway wins but says he was right to disown Labour candidate – as it happened

Labour leader says ‘Galloway only won because Labour did not stand’ but says it was right to withdraw candidate. This live blog is now closedFull story: George Galloway wins Rochdale byelectionLabour says George...

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Rochdale byelection live: Keir Starmer apologises after George Galloway wins but says he was right to disown Labour candidate

Labour leader says ‘Galloway only won because Labour did not stand’ but says it was right to withdraw candidateFull story: George Galloway wins Rochdale byelectionLabour says George Galloway is “only interested...

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Rochdale byelection live: Labour ‘apologises to the people of Rochdale’ after George Galloway victory

Losing party says ‘Galloway only won because Labour did not stand’ and calls him ‘a damaging force in our public life’Full story: George Galloway wins Rochdale byelectionLabour says George Galloway is...

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George Galloway wins sweeping victory in Rochdale byelection, saying ‘this is for Gaza’

Former Labour MP wins almost 40% of the vote in a contest beset by chaos and controversy – and dominated by the Israel-Hamas conflictThe veteran political agitator George Galloway declared “a shifting of the tectonic...

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