National politics

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Labour’s New Budget: What it means for Whalley Range residents

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Labour’s new budget, delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, outlines significant support for Manchester and Whalley Range residents, addressing the cost of living crisis, upgrading local infrastructure, and strengthening education and healthcare services. This budget is the first from Labour in nearly fifteen years, signalling a renewed focus on investment, job creation, […]

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Labour suspends SEVEN MP’s for voting against the Government on the two child benefit Cap!

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Labour have withdrawn the whip from SEVEN MP’s, after they voted against the Government in an SNP motion to have the two child benefit cap scrapped. The cost of reversing the 2015 Tory policy brought in by former Chancellor George Osbourne, is estimated to be £3.7bn per year. The cap has been blamed for record

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Kamala Harris – Presumptive democratic Presidential Nominee Speech

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At her Wisconsin campaign speech tonight, US Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she has gained the support of enough delegates to secure the Democratic Presidential nomination. Not only is she unopposed as the nominee, she has received the backing of several potential Democratic Presidential rivals, and more crucially the backing of the party’s top

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Whalley Range Labour - Joe Biden Pulls Out of The 2024 Presidential Race

**BREAKING NEWS** Joe Biden quits the 2024 presidential race!

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Joe biden has sensationally quit the US Presidential race, after mounting pressure from Senators, House Representatives, donors and supporters. It comes after an increasingly frail Biden performed terribly in the head to head Presidential debate with Donald Trump, which started calls for him to stand down. At last week’s NATO summit, President Biden referred to

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Is it time for a radical rethink of the UK education system?

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My Mother used to say “Education and manners will carry you through the world”, and never a truer word was spoken. Education seeps into every pore of society’s fabric, from the economic benefits to the employment market, to the mental and physical wellbeing of the nation. Luckily, I found most high school lessons pretty straightforward.

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the highlights from Labour’s king’s speech 2024

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A new era, and a new kind of politics was heralded with Sir Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech. Starmer looked every bit the Prime Minister as he gave the Government’s response to the speech given by King Charles. It was an address which finally offered hope to the UK, thus putting an end to the

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MAGA Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance – UK the first nuclear armed Islamic nation!

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Yes, you read it right! After the failed assassination attempt on his life, Donald Trump has chosen 39 year old MAGA Republican JD Vance as his Presidential running mate. Vance is an ardent proponent of MAGA’s Project 2025, which opponents say is the white Christian Nationalist view of the America, Trump and his supporters want

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The UK housing crisis facing Labour

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Housing is one of the many crisis’ facing the newly elected Labour Government. The UK Social Housing stock has been seriously depleted since Margaret Thatcher introduced the tenant Right to Buy scheme in the 80s. Many tenants bought their council homes at knockdown rates, and flipped them to private landlords, thus netting a tidy profit

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**BREAKING NEWS** – Donald Trump survives Assassination attempt!

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In shocking scenes at his Pennsylvania General Election rally, Former US President Donald J Trump survived an assassination attempt, which left one spectator and the gunman dead, and two spectators critically injured. The FBI have released the name of the gunman as 20 year old registered Republican Thomas Matthew Crooks. The bullet pierced Trumps right

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Manchester rusholme cLP first post election meeting

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The Manchester Rusholme Constituency Labour Party (CLP) Executive Committee, will hold its first meeting since the General Election, on Thursday 18th July 2024 at 19.00. The meeting will be held via Zoom and will give the Executive its first chance to congratulate our Parliamentary MP Afzal Khan on his successful return to the Commons. There

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