Labour’s candidate announces plans as she aims to take Heywood and Middleton from the Tories

The Bolton South and Walkden candidates for this year’s general election have been confirmed.

The Bolton West candidates for this year’s general election have been confirmed.

The Bolton North East candidates for this year’s general election have been confirmed.

Welcome to the third week of the 2024 general election campaign as the parties in Scotland go all out to win over undecided voters.

Seven major political parties will battle it out tonight in the first of the BBC's televised general election debates.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign (WASPI) have written to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, following her comments on compensation for 1950s-born women made during a press conference in Edinburgh earlier this week. Speaking to journalists alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the head office of NatWest Group on Tuesday, Ms Reeves was asked about compensation promised to WASPI women under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. Ms Reeves said that she recognised the injustice, but added that no costing of compensation has been carried out yet.

During the first televised General Election debate on ITV on Tuesday night between Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister warned that “for the first time in our country’s history, if Labour are elected, pensioners will pay tax.”

A man had 'pent-up anger and frustration' when he stabbed his mum's former partner to death in his flat, it is alleged. Andrew Hall, 59, today (Tuesday) went on trial accused of the murder of Geoffrey Ives in Heywood.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he is aiming to ‘bring immigration down’ to levels seen while Britain was an EU member during a visit to Brexit-backing Bolton.

Labour has committed to renewing the nuclear deterrent based on the Clyde.

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has promised to introduce a Bill to protect the NHS within 100 days of the general election.

On Thursday July 4, Britain will get to vote for the first time since 2019 on which party should lead the country.

D:Ream have banned Keir Starmer from using their 1993 New Labour anthem ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ in his election campaign.The song enjoyed a resurgence in popularity after it was played through a loudspeaker by protester Steve Bray, with the aim of drowning out Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he called a surprise General Election for July 4. Within 24 hours, the song had gone viral on social media and entered the iTunes Top 10.The Northern Irish band have previously said that they never enjoyed ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ having a political association.“My first reaction was ‘not again, please let me move on’,” singer Peter Cunnah told NME.

Four candidates have been selected to stand for Labour in Greater Manchester just weeks before the general election. Two will be contesting constituencies currently held by the party where the outgoing MPs were last elected with majorities of more than 3,000.

Keir Starmer has backed the introduction of a recall mechanism at the Scottish Parliament to remove rule-breaking MSPs.

Leading Black British stars, writers and execs have become the latest to criticize the Labour Party for its controversial mishandling of a row involving the UK’s first ever Black female MP.

A new poll has revealed Labour is in line for a crushing general election victory over the SNP in Scotland.

Angela Rayner has hit out at the "desperate tactics" by the Tories after police said they would take no further action following an investigation into her living arrangements prompted by a senior Conservative.

West Dunbartonshire’s MP has welcomed the calling of a general election, saying that it gives voters the opportunity to “kick out this woeful Westminster government.”

Anas Sarwar has said his party’s green energy revolution will create nearly 70,000 jobs in Scotland.