James O'Malley from YIMBY Pod has been quizzing me about secondary legislation, why it matters and what’s wrong with it.

Survation, polling for The Sunday Times, has given us the first constituency opinion poll for the Makerfield Parliamentary by ...

Stockport councillor and former deputy leader of the Labour group, Joe Barratt, has now joined the Liberal Democrats.

Claims of fake independent local election candidates have now led to five arrests in Tameside, following a scoop by The Mill.

The Supplementary Vote will be used if there is a by-election for Mayor of Greater Manchester following Andy Burnham's bid to ...

Winning Lib Dem by-election candidate Chris McSweeny. Four principal authority council by-elections this week to kick off the new cycle. Good to see a full slate of Lib Dem candidates, up one on the ...

A Liberal Democrat press release brings the news: Jake Austin has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Makerfield in the upcoming by-election, pledging to champion local issues that ...

Here’s the tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held between the May 2026 and the May 2027 local elections: Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, ...

Read about Andy Burnham. p.1 ...

There was a treat in the House of Lords this week - two maiden speeches from Liberal Democrat peers, Rhiannon Leaman and Mike ...