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Category: Politics

Tony Lloyd challenges Home Secretary to back local policing

Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd calls on the new Home Secretary to give local police the resources it needs to fight crime and make Greater Manchester...

Jeremy Corbyn to launch Labour leader bid on Saturday at The Lowry in Salford

Jeremy Corbyn is to launch his campaign for re-election as Labour Party leader in an event on Saturday at The Lowry Theatre on Salford Quays, The 2pm event – which...

Brexit: North ‘won’t be ignored ‘, leaders tell PM

The North of England must be given a voice as Britain negotiates leaving the EU, new Prime Minister Theresa May has been told. A joint letter was published this morning...

29 Salford councillors reject Jeremy Corbyn coup as Labour leader refuses to back down

29 Labour party councillors in Salford have given their official backing to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in a signed statement. Mr Corbyn faced a backbench coup in the...

Fresh concerns as junior doctors reject new contract

Junior doctors sparked fresh strike fears today as British Medical Association (BMA) members voted to reject the terms of a new contract offered to them by the...

Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey moved into Shadow Cabinet but knives out for Corbyn

The MP for Salford and Eccles, Rebecca Long-Bailey, has been promoted to Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasurey in Labour’s post-EU referendum cabinet shake-up....

Graham Stringer MP: Vote Leave leader on Corbyn coup, plunging pound, says call general election in wake of Brexit

Britain has shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. Now the only Salford MP to back the Leave campaign, Blackley and Broughton MP Graham Stringer, says...

Brexit: Salford and Britain vote Leave

Brexit has won. Britain has voted to leave the European Union. In a night of shocks for pollsters, Salford voted with the country to leave the EU. In Salford, the...

Watch: Eccles goes to the polls for EU Referendum

UK voters are flocking to their nearest polling station today with the choice to Remain or Leave the European Union. People have to decide if they wish to remain as one...

Watch: ‘They need us!’ – Europeans in Salford speak out on EU Referendum

None of them will be able to vote in today’s EU Referendum, but these three Europeans living and working in Salford give their thoughts on the most important vote...