Will Greater Manchester be left out in the cold by Keir Starmer's government after Andy Burnham's high-profile antics at Labour conference?

I chat with @liamthorp.bsky.social and @josephtiman.bsky.social on the Northern Agenda podcast this week - recorded in the Liverpool Echo's fancy studio!

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'It won't do Andy Burnham any harm to be seen to be at war with an unpopular government'

Was great to have
@patrickmaguire.bsky.social of The Times on the Northern Agenda podcast this week with @liamthorp.bsky.social and I to chat Labour conference, Hillsborough Law and his love of Southport

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'The qualities that made Angela Rayner so good are those you're more likely to see in Northern people'

@liamthorp.bsky.social on the Labour deputy leader race...

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I'm sad to see Local Govt and Devo Minister Jim McMahon lose his job in Keir Starmer's big reshuffle - not least because I'd just interviewed him for the Northern Agenda podcast...

Here he is talking about empowering local leaders and how too many decisions are still being made in Whitehall.

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"It doesn't send a good sign when councils close the door and refuse to engage with the local press."

Local Government Minister (and former Oldham council leader) @jimmcmahon.co.uk
on Reform UK's Nottingham Post/Notts Live ban...

@oliverpridmore.bsky.social

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The Starmer-Trump US-UK trade deal removing tariffs on £1bn+ of cheaper US ethanol means Hull firm
Vivergo Fuels will have to start making staff redundant on Tuesday - unless govt steps in.

Here's the firm's MD Ben Hackett speaking on The Northern Agenda podcast today

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'You can't eliminate the danger of another Bury or Macclesfield Town going out of existence. But you can have greater checks and balances to dissuade wrong'uns from entering the industry'

Keiran Maguire (@priceoffootball.bsky.social) on regulating football on the Northern Agenda podcast

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Leeds South West and Morley MP Mark Sewards (@markjsewards.bsky.social)
announced this week he'd worked with a local start-up to create a prototype AI version of himself to answer constituents' questions/deal with case work.

I'm not a constituent but thought I'd give AI Mark Sewards a call 📲

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Until we get the truth about the 1984 Battle of Orgreave it's going to remain an open wound for a lot of mining communities - and undermine their faith in the police.

Me on this week's Northern Agenda podcast...

@orgreavejustice.bsky.social

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'Performative populist politics'

@liamthorp.bsky.social on the decision by the ruling Reform UK group on Durham County Council to revoke the climate emergency declared by the same council in 2019.

Hear our full chat on the Northern Agenda podcast:

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