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AN INDEPENDENT member of the council has called on Copeland Labour to withdraw their bid for a vote of no confidence in the mayor.

Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries is planning a new facility to help Britain manage intermittent flows of renewable power

The Prime Minister is inviting global investors to buy into Britain, but his vision does not reflect the reality on the ground

Labour will keep on losing if it does not find answers "Too much of Labour's energy has gone into identity politics and niche culture wars," writes its MP for Birmingham 9 May 2021 • 9:13pm As a Labour MP, the fact that one of my colleagues – the MP for Hartlepool – is being replaced by a Conservative for the first time in 62 years is troubling enough. There is a national narrative that runs strongly against my party now. We are seen as out of touch, a party captured by urban liberals, whose most vocal supporters are university graduates with woke politics straight from the world of lef...

Everyone’s mum – or Mam, as we say in the North East – has their favourite embarrassing story about their children. Mine loves to recount how, aged eight, I answered the door to a Conservative candidate out canvassing, and upbraided the poor man at length on how wrong he was about everything. I was born and bred in Middlesbrough, only a few miles from Hartlepool, into a family steeped in Labour loyalty. My parents weren’t party members: You didn’t need to be. ‘Labour was in the air we breathed,’ I said to my mother yesterday, as we discussed the Hartlepool result. ‘No’, she ...