Labour's deputy leader wants party members to be "one team" before the Gorton and Denton by-election.

The chancellor acted after a backlash to measures she announced in last year's Budget.

Allies of the prime minister may try to block the mayor of Greater Manchester from standing in a parliamentary by-election.

Nearly 50 MPs have written to the chancellor calling for music venues to be exempted from a hike in business rates.

Decision to cap leaseholders’ ground rent also seen as a win for former deputy PM Angela Rayner

More than 60 Labour MPs have called on the prime minister to impose a ban on under-16s access to social media platforms. In a open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday, the 61 MPs said "successive governments" had done "too little to protect young people from... unregulated, addictive social media platforms".

The UK’s ruling Labour Party barred Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham from contesting a seat in Parliament, stymieing a possible leadership challenge against Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Leader Chris Hipkins has so far refused to say which parties Labour would or would not work with in a future government.

The by-election for Greater Manchester seat Gorton and Denton is set to take place at the end of February against a backdrop of tight polling and furious Labour infighting. The most senior group of Labour’s governing body,