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Andy Burnham's huge win in Makerfield: what next for Greater Manchester?

"I'd say to Sadiq: it is our turn": Lisa Nandy on why the North should host the Olympics, honours system, and Makerfield by-election

"This is very much a FIVE-PARTY system now": reaction to the Greens victory in Gorton and Denton

British values, immigration and Oasis: reflections from the Gorton and Denton by-election hustings

'This is personal': Why Rachel Reeves is spending £45bn on Northern Powerhouse Rail

Live from Liverpool: a Labour conference special

'We need to talk about Andy': Could Labour conference become the Burnham show?

Bridget vs Lucy: should Labour's next deputy leader be a Northern woman?

Rewiring England: Devolution and local power with Oldham's Jim McMahon

How a Northern journalist is telling us to "go doxx" ourselves online

The Northern city rivalling the Golden Triangle on health research

Biofuel battleground: Why the fate of Hull's Vivergo Fuels matters

Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday: a Northern football nightmare

What Reform UK are really like in power

Tackling the North's injustices: Orgreave, Hillsborough and child poverty

Don't Look Back In Anger: Reform UK cancels Durham's climate emergency

⚖️ The change that's 200 years too late

🎂 Happy Keir-niversary?

🕳️ Potholes: we're looking into them

📺 The man who wouldn't pay his licence fee

💷 Rachel Reeves splashes the cash up North

Wes Streeting visits Leeds, the cash bonanza for the North's transport services, and Burnley Banksy

The trampoline and the swamp

A new brand for the North

How are Reform UK doing now they have their first Northern MP, two Northern mayors and two Northern councils to run?

The Northern Agenda returns this Friday!

Election special: who wants to be mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire?

Our Kids in the North: So you've finished school - what next?

Our Kids in the North: It's hard being a kid - life in a Northern school in 2025

Our Kids in the North: The children let down by the state

The truth about family abuse and grooming gangs

Our Kids in the North: how Northern working parents are being priced out of childcare

Our Kids In The North: fighting back against child poverty

Our Kids In The North: the scandal of child poverty

A Christmas Message from The Northern Agenda

A message from The Northern Agenda editor Rob Parsons

Reaction to the Labour party conference in Liverpool

Will Labour really deliver for the North? | Learning the lessons from HS2 fiasco

Nasty individuals, racists and useful idiots | How riots unfolded in Rotherham and Middlesbrough

👶 Women failed from the day they're born | Joe Morris: the Labour MP in a seat that voted Tory for a century

Thinking outside of the box: how embracing neurodiversity can harness creativity in the North

The Northern Agenda on the road: Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley

York and North Yorkshire mayor David Skaith on his "whirlwind" first 100 days | How visits to Bolton's pubs is shaping research

What the future holds for our town halls after a turbulent and challenging last decade

Is TransPennine Express on the right track for recovery?

Matt Vickers: the last remaining Tory MP in the North East | The fascinating hidden stories of Manchester you won't have learned about at school

📈 Alarming Vital Signs in the North East

From Wearside to Westminster: what's it like to be a new MP?

Rishi, Binface and me: election night in North Yorkshire

Why voters in the North are so disillusioned by the General Election

Northern election rivals taken to task

Will Orgreave miners get the truth after 40 years? | A postcard from Southport

The hidden poverty in Rishi Sunak's leafy Yorkshire patch

General Election 2024: A view from the North

Levelling Up: How is it going so far?

🏙️ 🐝 The city that shaped the modern world

📱Smart phones 'destroying our children' | Where's Newcastle's Saudi jobs boom?

Having a mayor - what now for the North's new political superheroes?

Sunak's silver lining: Live from Tees Valley as Tories hammered in local elections

Local elections 2024: the ones to watch | How can North’s ex-mining towns catch up?

Which political story should we be paying more attention to: Angela Rayner or Mark Menzies?

Alex Niven on why he believes the North will rise again | How much do we know about Labour's policies for the North?

EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Agenda hosts the hustings for the new elected mayor of the North East

The Northern Agenda's Road to the Election: Blackpool South

🎓 Why bright Northern students don't apply to Cambridge

Muslims in the North: how a new museum in Leeds wants to "decolonise civic spaces"

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram: their plan to rewire and reimagine our country beyond the Westminster bubble

Reaction to the Rochdale by-election result | 2080: the year when the life expectancy North-South gap really changes

Reform UK: raging against the machine, or the UK's new third party?

Will George Galloway be Rochdale's next MP? | Dragging North's market towns into 2024

How to make politics funny: With Matt Chorley and Graeme Bandeira

No corruption but plenty of secrecy: What next for Teesworks?

Why is there a bias against Northern voices - and can we combat it?

A North East mayor: Why should we care?

Keir Starmer up North | Hear Labour leader as he's quizzed by students on Greater Manchester visit

There's more than one big election up North in 2024

Is Manchester now the London of the North?

This Is The North 2023: 'A Radical North – The People Powered Future Starts Here'

Wear on the up: The transformation of Sunderland

Reaction to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement | How will investment zones work in West Yorkshire?

Dehenna Davison MP on her time as levelling up minister and tougher sentences for people who kill with one punch

The North in Numbers: Dangerous dogs

✍️ A Writing Chance: how budding writers from underrepresented backgrounds could get their big break

Tomorrow's MPs: Michael Crick lifts the lid on politics' dirty secrets

📅 Rishi Sunak - One Year In: has the Prime Minister been good for the North?

🏠 How do we solve the housing crisis and why aren't we building enough homes? 📱Why the working poor are valuable assets to any tech company

✨ Glitter, smoke and mirrors | A view from Merseyside after Labour conference

Mancs but no thanks: Conservative Party Conference special

🗣️ How new Sheffield council leader Tom Hunt is keeping his Labour colleagues in order and dealing with a massive pay equality claim from the unions

🚌 Andy B's big bus gamble

⚔️ The battle for the North begins | Liverpool MP Paula Barker on Labour's devolution plans | Bold idea for the Tories from the Northern Caucus

The North in Numbers: oversubscribed schools in the North

⬆️ Preview of 'UP North: Innovative thinking from the North to unlock a more prosperous future for all'

🛒 How our high streets can survive - and thrive - in the North

💼 A Level results, Lionesses, and addressing the regional imbalances for Northern entrepreneurs

The disabled young mum kicked off Hull council: Sarah Harper-Riches on the 'archaic rules' that forced her out of local politics

🚢 From cul-de-sac to powerhouse, what does the future hold for Barrow?

🦷 The tooth hurts: Inside the North's dentistry crisis

🌹 Rachel Reeves on what the new economic reality means for Labour's promises, and her take on Jamie Driscoll quitting the party

😮 Selby and Ainsty by-election: can the 25-year-old Labour candidate cause a huge upset in North Yorkshire?

🔽 Can the New Conservatives slash UK migration? Bolton MP Chris Green on Westminster's new red wall pressure group

🗳️ Kim McGuinness on why she is standing for the Mayor of the North East 🎓 Education secretary Gillian Keegan on Andy Burnham's MBacc plan

💩 Sewage in the water, soaring interest rates and more with the Mirror's Kevin Maguire 🗳️ Katherine Fletcher MP on why metro mayors might not be the answer for Lancashire

💻 Labour's Charlotte Nichols on battling PTSD and abuse as an MP 💷 Economist Simon French looks under the bonnet of the North's economy

🥊 Why Ruth Hannan has picked a fight with Northern Powerhouse Partnership chairman Lord Jim O'Neill

🚕 Why are hard-up councils spending £5m a week sending children to school in taxis? ⬆️ Matt Vickers MP on the unexpected resurgence of the Tories in his borough, record high migration levels, and the big Teesworks row

🧠 The Northern brain drain: Why are so many young people in our region planning to move elsewhere for a better life?

🌹 Alastair Campbell on the success of levelling up, what Tony Blair did for the North and how the 'red wall' deserted Labour 🥳 The Eurovision party arrives in Liverpool

🗳️ Who's up and who's down in the local elections? 💰 Hostile takeover drama at dawn of new era in Britain

🥳 The Northern Agenda turns two! Is the North still a priority for the government? 💉 How Liverpool is playing a part in developing vaccines

"It's about bread-and-butter, life and death issues in your community": races to watch in May's local elections

⚡ The man bringing lightning fast broadband to the North 🌊 Carbon capture: Storing CO2 under the sea could bring jobs to our region

A Northern Agenda exclusive! The winner of the Levelling Up Fund: consultancy firms 🥇 Plus John Stevenson MP and Keane Duncan

The North-South divide on asylum: a Northern Agenda special

💷 Budget 2023: the reaction to Jeremy Hunt's first Budget as Chancellor and what it means for the North

🏙️ The challenges and opportunities facing our cities with Newcastle NE1's Stephen Patterson 💷 And will Jeremy Hunt's Budget be a big moment for Levelling Up?

Roads minister Richard Holden on electric buses, Greater Manchester taking services under public control, and 15-minute cities

Louise Haigh on what Labour would do about our struggling bus and rail services

15-minute cities: an international socialist concept or giving people more freedom?

Do we need a Minister for the North? | Kim Leadbeater MP on the skills training gap in the North

How we can save Northern football | Hydrogen: the job-creating chemical

Exclusive interview with Michael Gove from the Convention of the North

The (onshore) wind beneath our wings | Why caring for vulnerable children could force councils to go bust

💼 Jonathan Ashworth on Labour's plan to help people back into work 🏳️‍🌈 What the Census reveals about LGBTQ communities in the North

The year Leeds culture comes out of hiding | The unfair system punishing Northern town halls

🗳️ Preview of the Stretford and Urmston by-election 📈 Are the prospects for Teesside getting any better?

How the 'worst-ever outbreak of bird flu' could hit the North's farms and dinner tables | Northern Power Women: accelerating gender equality

📣 'This is the North': a Northern Agenda special from The People's Powerhouse annual convention

🗳️ It's by-election season in Chester and Stretford! | Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd on how we can prevent another tragedy like Awaab Ishak

😠 'I'm furious': Yorkshire mayor reacts to autumn statement 👪 What future for children of the North?

💷 Government expands intervention into Liverpool City Council 🤝 The 93% Club: an alternative to the old boys network

🏫 How primary school children running drugs for gangs has "become the norm" in the North

🏥 The "ticking time bomb" in the North's hospitals 🛡️ Turning Scarborough into a Cyber Security HQ

🚌 Why Leeds lags behind Dublin and Lille 🏗️ Our attitude towards Levelling Up

Dr Kieran Mullan MP on sentencing for child murderers | How well-prepared is the North East for the coming economic storm?

The future of STEM: how we can get more young people in the North into science and technology jobs

What will the North get from Tory conference? | Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotherham on hydrogen, buses and tourism tax

Labour Party conference preview with Kevin Maguire | Catherine McKinnell MP on the East Coast Mainline | How the North can help Liz Truss

The great Cumbrian council shake-up | Why businesses need to stop the search for employee 'unicorns'

Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen on Boris Johnson's legacy | Political cartoonist Graeme Bandeira joins The Northern Agenda!

Andy Burnham on "shouting into the abyss" with Boris Johnson | Sacha Lord on how the cost of living crisis is hitting hospitality

The North's housing shame | Stephen Topping on Rochdale's forgotten estate | Why Yorkshire's rented homes are the worst in England

Crime and punishment in the North: Ex-chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal and police watchdog Andy Cooke on how to tackle grooming and burglary

Sir Roger Marsh on what Local Enterprise Partnerships want to hear from Sunak & Truss | Matt Cook on the northern queer identity

Our message to Sunak and Truss: Don't Turn Your Back On The North | The Northern Powerhouse: 8 years on

Nick Fletcher on the fight to save Doncaster Sheffield Airport | Will Universal Basic Income ever become a thing?

Anna Turley on the North East becoming the UK's child poverty hotspot | Upgrading the 76-mile Transpennine rail between Manchester and York

The Northern Agenda: Oliver Coppard on South Yorkshire's buses | Tris Brown on 100 ideas for the North

Louise Haigh on why she thinks Boris Johnson's Red Wall will crumble | Sir Robert Goodwill on fishing, levelling up, and the prime minister

Lexit: Should Leigh split from Wigan? | The prejudices against northern accents

Wakefield by-election special: The Northern Agenda and YorkshireLive hustings

Jacob Young on the confidence vote and why every MP should be a 'levelling up MP' | James Daly on the question of sport in the North

How the Tories are faring in the North's big cities – and why the party has no councillors in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle

Lisa Nandy on Labour's vision for levelling up | Tory MP Miriam Cates on why a manufacturing revival is needed in the North

Susan Hinchcliffe on why Bradford should be a test case for levelling up | IPPR North's Zoe Billingham on her new job | Community Powers Act

Tracy Brabin on her first year as West Yorkshire mayor | Author Sam Bright on the injustices between London and the North

A 2022 local elections special | Rachael Maskell on trains in the North | Manchester Tech Festival and the digital divide

Damien Moore MP on war memorials | Professor Helen Marshall on higher technical education | The fight for overall control in Stockport

TUC's Frances O'Grady on getting tough against "corporate gangsters" | The most radical shake-up to North Yorkshire politics in decades

The influential Northerners you've (probably) never heard of | Local election focus on Wirral

Catherine McKinnell on the cost of living crisis | How politicians can win over the countryside | Who'll be next South Yorkshire mayor?

Dan Jarvis on his time as the Mayor of South Yorkshire and why he is stepping down | Sir John Curtice's predictions for the local elections

Reaction to Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement | Durham's bid to become the 2025 UK City of Culture

Behind the scenes at The Northern Agenda Live

Highlights from The Northern Agenda Live

🇺🇦 Why Rochdale is "standing shoulder to shoulder" with Ukraine | The dentistry crisis in the North

🚍 Northern bus crisis: a special report from The Northern Agenda

How Northern Gritstone is hoping to bridge the North-South research funding gap | What do communities want from net zero?

Lisa Nandy MP on Michael Gove and the Levelling Up white paper | 5 things you need to know about politics in Cumbria

Labour's Laura Pidcock on why she quit the NEC and her thoughts on Keir Starmer | How businesses are coping with Covid and net zero

Reaction to the Levelling Up White Paper: what does it mean for the North?

Jake Berry MP on why he is backing Boris Johnson | The cost of school uniforms in Wakefield | The politics of Liverpool

Scott Benton MP on Boris Johnson's leadership and THAT defection | Levelling up Northern culture | 5 things you need to know about Sheffield

The Northern Agenda: Clean Air Zone special | Reactions from Greater Manchester, Newcastle, and York

Omicron surges in the North West | Tim Farron on holiday lets, farming and the Lib Dems | The politics of York

It's a Northern Agenda Christmas Quiz!

What Greater Manchester thinks about levelling up | Sedgefield MP Paul Howell | 5 things you need to know about Middlesbrough

Why rising inequality is costing the North billions | How Labour can win back northern heartlands with Alex Cunningham MP |

The Yorkshire village turning into a ghost town | Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake on rebelling on the social care levy | The People's Powerhouse

Manchester MP Afzal Khan on Islamophobia | The winter and Covid pressures on the NHS | 5 things you need to know about Lancashire

An Integrated Rail Plan or the 'great train robbery'? | Five things you need to know about politics in Northumberland

Our demand for the government to keep its rail promises | Philip Davies & Susan Hinchcliffe on Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2 in Bradford

Jamie Driscoll on why the government should lend the North of Tyne £500m | Why poor public transport is costing the North | Politics of Hull

What the Autumn Statement means for the North | Bridget Phillipson's reaction to the Budget | 5 things you need to know about Oldham

Net zero and the North | What you think about the 'Levelling Up' agenda | Redcar MP Jacob Young | Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake

Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram on 'levelling up' minister Michael Gove | Sheffield's youngest - and only Tory - councillor | Life expectancy

Examining the plight of the North's hard-pressed town halls | Takeaways from the Conservative Party Conference

Preview of the Conservative Party Conference | Ben Houchen on 'levelling up' and other metro mayors

The Northern Agenda launches! Preview of the Labour Party Conference | John McDonnell on leadership vote reforms | Ian Byrne on Hillsborough

Interview with Lisa Nandy

Election Special - The Morning After

On the Battle-Bus

Word on the street

Manifestos

The Not-Brexit Election

Mopping Up

Winter Is Coming

The North Poll - Trailer