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Posts Tagged: Andy Burnham MP

David Skelton: It was working class voters who delivered this majority – and Johnson must not abandon them now

The second of a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

By David Skelton | 17 November 2020 | 70 comments

David Gauke: With a position so exposed, how did Burnham get away with it?

It is a bad sign both for the Government and devolution that the Greater Manchester Mayor has been able to run rings round Ministers.

By David Gauke | 24 October 2020 | 86 comments

The most powerful player in Parliament on Coronavirus isn’t Brady, or even Johnson – but Starmer

Growing anti-lockdown sentiment among northern Labour mayors and councils offer him new opportunities – and dangers.

By Paul Goodman | 8 October 2020 | 124 comments

Phil Taylor: In its bid for bleakness, Labour’s broadcast is both glib and deceptive

Setting flimsy evidence and distorted statistics to a depressing soundtrack does nothing for their credibility.

By Phil Taylor | 14 February 2019 | 20 comments

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.

By Henry Hill | 28 April 2017 | 222 comments

Next week’s council elections: The Conservative / Labour battlegrounds – Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire

Will Andy Street adorn the front pages with a broad grin on his face, the newly-elected Conservative West Midlands Mayor?

By Harry Phibbs | 25 April 2017

Greg Taylor: King in the North – how Andy Burnham Could Put the Kybosh on the Tory Northern Revival.

His meat and potatoes family-values message plays well.

By Greg Taylor | 7 March 2017 | 22 comments

Will Labour apologise for Manchester’s rubbish deal?

A PFI contract fixing a cost to dispose of residual waste that was double the market rates.

By Harry Phibbs | 18 November 2016 | 6 comments

Richard Short: We Tories must renew our efforts to win the industrial north

Corbyn might lock Labour out of power at Westminster, but Momentum could still end up wielding real power in local government.

By Richard Short | 29 September 2016 | 27 comments

Labour’s pro-EU campaign was sputtering from the start – now the wheels are coming off

Labour MPs are beginning to worry that they have lost the ear of their own core vote.

By Mark Wallace | 10 June 2016 | 57 comments

The impact of the new city and regional mayors could be huge – but hardly anyone has noticed

While most eyes are on Labour’s ideological battles or Tory referendum struggles, devolution is changing the nature of government and politics.

By Mark Wallace | 19 May 2016 | 21 comments

Richard Short: Never give up on the Conservative coalfield challenge

Spencer Pitfield’s by-election candidacy in Sheffield and my own experience in Leigh help demonstrate that nowhere should be out of bounds for us.

By Richard Short | 13 April 2016 | 11 comments

Nick Timothy: Labour’s crisis is not about Corbyn – it’s existential

Relatively moderate members of the Opposition know that they disagree with the Hard Left, but they have no idea what to do in response.

By Nick Timothy | 15 December 2015 | 31 comments

The fallout from Corbyn’s Trident comments starts to contaminate the Labour Party

His Shadow Defence Secretary, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary publicly disagree with him.

By Mark Wallace | 30 September 2015 | 86 comments

Nicky Morgan MP: Our vision for gender equality – and helping women to fulfil their potential

It is the Conservative Party which produced the first ever female MP, the first lesbian leader in Ruth Davidson and the first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.

By Nicky Morgan MP | 26 September 2015 | 35 comments

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