Paul Weller shares support for Palestine: “Am I against genocides and ethnic cleansing? Yes I am, funnily enough”

The number of children affected by the two-child benefit cap will rise by a third over the next five years, a think tank has warned.

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has overtaken the Conservatives in a major poll of public opinion for the first time, in the latest blow to the Tories’ hopes in the election campaign.

Greater Manchester would not need to introduce a Clean Air Zone under a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, the Labour leader ruled out forcing the charging scheme through.

Radical plans to abolish the Greater Manchester mayor’s role and for Leigh and Atherton to be ‘cut adrift’ from Wigan council control have been put forward by a Conservative candidate. Former Wigan town mayor Michael Winstanley is vying to replace Tory MP James Grundy, who is not seeking re-election in the seat he took from Labour in Leigh and Atherton for the first time ever in 2019.

An incoming Labour Government will hand the Scottish Office a £150m warchest to combat poverty.

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.

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

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.”

George Galloway says it is 'completely wrong' that he has not been invited to take part in televised general election debates. The Workers Party of Britain leader, who became Rochdale's MP earlier this year following a by-election, says he should be included.

Whoever wins the general election, with record numbers of people on the NHS waiting lists, a broken social care system, and stubbornly high energy bills, the next Prime Minister is going to have to make some "tough" choices if they are to fix the problems facing Britain. But at ITV's first televised debate of the general election, Martin Lewis did not think "the real question" had been answered.

It has been nearly 80 years since Stalybridge and Hyde were not represented by Labour in Parliament.

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.

The BBC has followed ITV’s lead by unveiling its plan for a general election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

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

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.

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.

ITV has come out the blocks first with its head-to-head election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.