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🥂Feeling delighted - if a little delicate - this morning after winning the Best Individual-Led Newsletter (News and Current Affairs) award at last night's Publisher Newsletter Awards The Publisher Newsletter Awards🥂 Was a hugely strong shortlist including Financial Times, Economist and BBC

Labour mayors in the North are generally pretty happy with Rachel Reeves' spending review - but not York and North Yorkshire's David Skaith (David Skaith) He says: “This government had a real chance to show it was serious about rural and coastal areas - but it missed it." ☹️

I realise MPs have to suck up to party bosses to get on, but this during yesterday's spending review debate is pretty cringeworthy Find out what Liam Thorp, henrimurison.bsky.social and I made of it (and lots else besides) on the Northern Agenda podcast podfollow.com/the-northern-a…

A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR... A bold spending review from Rachel Reeves as she delves into her magic bag! Here's today's The Northern Agenda cartoon...

Today is six months on from the closure of the Gateshead Flyover, so here's a thread with some updates on the situation 🧵 Confirmation here that its planned demolition in the autumn won't force a change in the Great North Run route. chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

Back in the days of New Labour his father John Prescott was at the forefront of efforts to close the North-South divide and get the region's leaders to work more closely together. 1/3

Are men of Pakistani heritage overrepresented in child grooming gang cases in West Yorkshire? Questioned by Keighley Conservative MP Robbie Moore MP during some testy exchanges in Parliament today, Labour West Yorkshire deputy mayor Alison Lowe OBE says yes they are 1/3

On the Northern Agenda podcast this week: Liam Thorp and I on why so many Northern private hire taxi drivers are licensed in Wolverhampton - and what that's to do with the child grooming scandal? PLUS: The Merseyside man who wouldn't pay his licence fee 1/2

SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP! Can Keir Starmer tame Trump! Here’s today’s Jurassic World inspired The Northern Agenda cartoon…

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced a new rapid investigation into NHS maternity services. And the Department for Health told me today that Leeds - whose services were downgraded last week by the Care Quality Commission - is among the 10 trusts to be looked at 1/2

In 2021 the people of Sheffield voted in a referendum to move their council to a commitee system rather than the cabinet and leader model. Now the Labour government has told them (and others using the committee system like Wirral and Cheshire East) that they must switch back 🤷

'This comes as a surprise, we were not consulted' Sheffield's council leader Tom Hunt on the govt's decision to stop councils from being run by committee It does beg the question, shouldn't people in Sheffield - not Ministers in London - decide how their council is run?

Never a dull moment in politics! Tomorrow's The Northern Agenda cartoon is penned and ready to land in your inboxes! Don't forget to subscribe to Britain's Best Political Newsletter executed superbly by Rob Parsons

FAILING NOT SAILING! It's a heartache for Starmer as rebels force him to U-turn on welfare bill. Here's today's The Northern Agenda cartoon...

If you want to know everything about potholes in your patch - including how much your local council is spending on fixing and preventing them - today's going to be a big day. A thread...

ROLL WITH IT Opening night tomorrow. Here's one I made earlier for The Northern Agenda

I wrote for today’s The Northern Agenda on where we are up to on regional policy, one year on since the last election: linkedin.com/pulse/starmers…

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! One year on for Starmer! Recognise the film anyone? Here’s today’s The Northern Agenda cartoon…

With his own MPs rebelling, his flagship welfare legislation in tatters and Nigel Farage MP leading in the polls, it's no wonder Keir Starmer feels 'under siege'... Graeme Bandeira draws on a memorable scene from the 1992 Steven Seagal movie for his Northern Agenda cartoon 1/2

Here's the funding needed to keep Greater Manchester's publicly-run bus network going each year - and less than half of it comes from passengers' fares But actually that's far from unusual... Graphic by Greater Manchester Combined Authority A thread 1/8