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Frances Weetman

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Frances Weetman is an independent councillor for North Tyneside and author of Whose Model Is It Anyway? : Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality. She is the inaugural winner of the Virago New Statesman Prize

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham speaking to the media outside the Central Library in Manchester, he has threatened legal action if Tier 3 restrictions are imposed without agreement
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The Tories supported devolution until it created an Andy Burnham

Labour is attempting to win back the working classes
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I’m glad Keir Starmer’s speech turned off the radical left

Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer speak at a Labour leadership hustings in Glasgow last week
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Labour has to stop focusing on fringe issues if it wants to win again

Speaker John Bercow speaking in the House of Commons in London, 21 October, 2019.
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Bullies don’t deserve high office – so why ennoble Bercow and Murphy?

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