The Northern Agenda
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The Northern Agenda is a weekly podcast covering politics and public affairs from across the North of England, voiced by journalists who are outside the Westminster bubble, reporting from the other side of the North/South divide.
From Blackpool to Barnsley and Bamburgh and everywhere in between, exploring subjects such as levelling up to buses, elections to the latest council scraps, The Northern Agenda brings you discussion and analysis of the North's big political stories, from people experiencing them on the ground.
Rob Parsons and Liam Thorp look at the political stories that really matter to the North - and from the North - that you won't hear about from the national media in London.
The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and it is produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.
You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/
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How a Northern journalist is telling us to "go doxx" ourselves online
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The Northern city rivalling the Golden Triangle on health research
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Biofuel battleground: Why the fate of Hull's Vivergo Fuels matters
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday: a Northern football nightmare
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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What Reform UK are really like in power
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Tackling the North's injustices: Orgreave, Hillsborough and child poverty
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Don't Look Back In Anger: Reform UK cancels Durham's climate emergency
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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⚖️ The change that's 200 years too late
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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🎂 Happy Keir-niversary?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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🕳️ Potholes: we're looking into them
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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📺 The man who wouldn't pay his licence fee
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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💷 Rachel Reeves splashes the cash up North
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Wes Streeting visits Leeds, the cash bonanza for the North's transport services, and Burnley Banksy
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The trampoline and the swamp
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May 27, 2025 |
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A new brand for the North
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May 23, 2025 |
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How are Reform UK doing now they have their first Northern MP, two Northern mayors and two Northern councils to run?
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May 16, 2025 |
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The Northern Agenda returns this Friday!
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May 13, 2025 |
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Election special: who wants to be mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Our Kids in the North: So you've finished school - what next?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Our Kids in the North: It's hard being a kid - life in a Northern school in 2025
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Our Kids in the North: The children let down by the state
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The truth about family abuse and grooming gangs
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Our Kids in the North: how Northern working parents are being priced out of childcare
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Our Kids In The North: fighting back against child poverty
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Our Kids In The North: the scandal of child poverty
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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A Christmas Message from The Northern Agenda
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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A message from The Northern Agenda editor Rob Parsons
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Reaction to the Labour party conference in Liverpool
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Will Labour really deliver for the North? | Learning the lessons from HS2 fiasco
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Nasty individuals, racists and useful idiots | How riots unfolded in Rotherham and Middlesbrough
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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👶 Women failed from the day they're born | Joe Morris: the Labour MP in a seat that voted Tory for a century
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Thinking outside of the box: how embracing neurodiversity can harness creativity in the North
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The Northern Agenda on the road: Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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York and North Yorkshire mayor David Skaith on his "whirlwind" first 100 days | How visits to Bolton's pubs is shaping research
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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What the future holds for our town halls after a turbulent and challenging last decade
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Is TransPennine Express on the right track for recovery?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Matt Vickers: the last remaining Tory MP in the North East | The fascinating hidden stories of Manchester you won't have learned about at school
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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📈 Alarming Vital Signs in the North East
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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From Wearside to Westminster: what's it like to be a new MP?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Rishi, Binface and me: election night in North Yorkshire
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Why voters in the North are so disillusioned by the General Election
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Northern election rivals taken to task
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Will Orgreave miners get the truth after 40 years? | A postcard from Southport
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The hidden poverty in Rishi Sunak's leafy Yorkshire patch
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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General Election 2024: A view from the North
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Levelling Up: How is it going so far?
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May 31, 2024 |
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🏙️ 🐝 The city that shaped the modern world
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May 23, 2024 |
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📱Smart phones 'destroying our children' | Where's Newcastle's Saudi jobs boom?
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May 17, 2024 |
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Having a mayor - what now for the North's new political superheroes?
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May 10, 2024 |
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Sunak's silver lining: Live from Tees Valley as Tories hammered in local elections
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May 03, 2024 |
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Local elections 2024: the ones to watch | How can North’s ex-mining towns catch up?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Which political story should we be paying more attention to: Angela Rayner or Mark Menzies?
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Alex Niven on why he believes the North will rise again | How much do we know about Labour's policies for the North?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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EXCLUSIVE: The Northern Agenda hosts the hustings for the new elected mayor of the North East
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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The Northern Agenda's Road to the Election: Blackpool South
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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🎓 Why bright Northern students don't apply to Cambridge
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Muslims in the North: how a new museum in Leeds wants to "decolonise civic spaces"
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram: their plan to rewire and reimagine our country beyond the Westminster bubble
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Reaction to the Rochdale by-election result | 2080: the year when the life expectancy North-South gap really changes
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Reform UK: raging against the machine, or the UK's new third party?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Will George Galloway be Rochdale's next MP? | Dragging North's market towns into 2024
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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How to make politics funny: With Matt Chorley and Graeme Bandeira
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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No corruption but plenty of secrecy: What next for Teesworks?
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Why is there a bias against Northern voices - and can we combat it?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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A North East mayor: Why should we care?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Keir Starmer up North | Hear Labour leader as he's quizzed by students on Greater Manchester visit
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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There's more than one big election up North in 2024
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Is Manchester now the London of the North?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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This Is The North 2023: 'A Radical North – The People Powered Future Starts Here'
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Wear on the up: The transformation of Sunderland
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Reaction to Jeremy Hunt's 2023 Autumn Statement | How will investment zones work in West Yorkshire?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Dehenna Davison MP on her time as levelling up minister and tougher sentences for people who kill with one punch
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The North in Numbers: Dangerous dogs
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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✍️ A Writing Chance: how budding writers from underrepresented backgrounds could get their big break
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Tomorrow's MPs: Michael Crick lifts the lid on politics' dirty secrets
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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📅 Rishi Sunak - One Year In: has the Prime Minister been good for the North?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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🏠 How do we solve the housing crisis and why aren't we building enough homes? 📱Why the working poor are valuable assets to any tech company
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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✨ Glitter, smoke and mirrors | A view from Merseyside after Labour conference
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Mancs but no thanks: Conservative Party Conference special
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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🗣️ How new Sheffield council leader Tom Hunt is keeping his Labour colleagues in order and dealing with a massive pay equality claim from the unions
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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🚌 Andy B's big bus gamble
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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⚔️ The battle for the North begins | Liverpool MP Paula Barker on Labour's devolution plans | Bold idea for the Tories from the Northern Caucus
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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The North in Numbers: oversubscribed schools in the North
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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⬆️ Preview of 'UP North: Innovative thinking from the North to unlock a more prosperous future for all'
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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🛒 How our high streets can survive - and thrive - in the North
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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💼 A Level results, Lionesses, and addressing the regional imbalances for Northern entrepreneurs
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The disabled young mum kicked off Hull council: Sarah Harper-Riches on the 'archaic rules' that forced her out of local politics
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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🚢 From cul-de-sac to powerhouse, what does the future hold for Barrow?
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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🦷 The tooth hurts: Inside the North's dentistry crisis
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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🌹 Rachel Reeves on what the new economic reality means for Labour's promises, and her take on Jamie Driscoll quitting the party
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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😮 Selby and Ainsty by-election: can the 25-year-old Labour candidate cause a huge upset in North Yorkshire?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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🔽 Can the New Conservatives slash UK migration? Bolton MP Chris Green on Westminster's new red wall pressure group
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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🗳️ Kim McGuinness on why she is standing for the Mayor of the North East 🎓 Education secretary Gillian Keegan on Andy Burnham's MBacc plan
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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💩 Sewage in the water, soaring interest rates and more with the Mirror's Kevin Maguire 🗳️ Katherine Fletcher MP on why metro mayors might not be the answer for Lancashire
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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💻 Labour's Charlotte Nichols on battling PTSD and abuse as an MP 💷 Economist Simon French looks under the bonnet of the North's economy
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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🥊 Why Ruth Hannan has picked a fight with Northern Powerhouse Partnership chairman Lord Jim O'Neill
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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🚕 Why are hard-up councils spending £5m a week sending children to school in taxis? ⬆️ Matt Vickers MP on the unexpected resurgence of the Tories in his borough, record high migration levels, and the big Teesworks row
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May 25, 2023 |
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🧠 The Northern brain drain: Why are so many young people in our region planning to move elsewhere for a better life?
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May 18, 2023 |
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🌹 Alastair Campbell on the success of levelling up, what Tony Blair did for the North and how the 'red wall' deserted Labour 🥳 The Eurovision party arrives in Liverpool
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May 12, 2023 |
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🗳️ Who's up and who's down in the local elections? 💰 Hostile takeover drama at dawn of new era in Britain
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May 05, 2023 |
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🥳 The Northern Agenda turns two! Is the North still a priority for the government? 💉 How Liverpool is playing a part in developing vaccines
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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"It's about bread-and-butter, life and death issues in your community": races to watch in May's local elections
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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⚡ The man bringing lightning fast broadband to the North 🌊 Carbon capture: Storing CO2 under the sea could bring jobs to our region
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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A Northern Agenda exclusive! The winner of the Levelling Up Fund: consultancy firms 🥇 Plus John Stevenson MP and Keane Duncan
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The North-South divide on asylum: a Northern Agenda special
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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💷 Budget 2023: the reaction to Jeremy Hunt's first Budget as Chancellor and what it means for the North
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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🏙️ The challenges and opportunities facing our cities with Newcastle NE1's Stephen Patterson 💷 And will Jeremy Hunt's Budget be a big moment for Levelling Up?
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Roads minister Richard Holden on electric buses, Greater Manchester taking services under public control, and 15-minute cities
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Louise Haigh on what Labour would do about our struggling bus and rail services
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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15-minute cities: an international socialist concept or giving people more freedom?
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Do we need a Minister for the North? | Kim Leadbeater MP on the skills training gap in the North
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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How we can save Northern football | Hydrogen: the job-creating chemical
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Exclusive interview with Michael Gove from the Convention of the North
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The (onshore) wind beneath our wings | Why caring for vulnerable children could force councils to go bust
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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💼 Jonathan Ashworth on Labour's plan to help people back into work 🏳️🌈 What the Census reveals about LGBTQ communities in the North
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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The year Leeds culture comes out of hiding | The unfair system punishing Northern town halls
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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🗳️ Preview of the Stretford and Urmston by-election 📈 Are the prospects for Teesside getting any better?
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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How the 'worst-ever outbreak of bird flu' could hit the North's farms and dinner tables | Northern Power Women: accelerating gender equality
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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📣 'This is the North': a Northern Agenda special from The People's Powerhouse annual convention
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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🗳️ It's by-election season in Chester and Stretford! | Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd on how we can prevent another tragedy like Awaab Ishak
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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😠 'I'm furious': Yorkshire mayor reacts to autumn statement 👪 What future for children of the North?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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💷 Government expands intervention into Liverpool City Council 🤝 The 93% Club: an alternative to the old boys network
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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🏫 How primary school children running drugs for gangs has "become the norm" in the North
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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🏥 The "ticking time bomb" in the North's hospitals 🛡️ Turning Scarborough into a Cyber Security HQ
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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🚌 Why Leeds lags behind Dublin and Lille 🏗️ Our attitude towards Levelling Up
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Dr Kieran Mullan MP on sentencing for child murderers | How well-prepared is the North East for the coming economic storm?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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The future of STEM: how we can get more young people in the North into science and technology jobs
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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What will the North get from Tory conference? | Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotherham on hydrogen, buses and tourism tax
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Labour Party conference preview with Kevin Maguire | Catherine McKinnell MP on the East Coast Mainline | How the North can help Liz Truss
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The great Cumbrian council shake-up | Why businesses need to stop the search for employee 'unicorns'
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen on Boris Johnson's legacy | Political cartoonist Graeme Bandeira joins The Northern Agenda!
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Andy Burnham on "shouting into the abyss" with Boris Johnson | Sacha Lord on how the cost of living crisis is hitting hospitality
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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The North's housing shame | Stephen Topping on Rochdale's forgotten estate | Why Yorkshire's rented homes are the worst in England
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Crime and punishment in the North: Ex-chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal and police watchdog Andy Cooke on how to tackle grooming and burglary
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Sir Roger Marsh on what Local Enterprise Partnerships want to hear from Sunak & Truss | Matt Cook on the northern queer identity
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Our message to Sunak and Truss: Don't Turn Your Back On The North | The Northern Powerhouse: 8 years on
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Nick Fletcher on the fight to save Doncaster Sheffield Airport | Will Universal Basic Income ever become a thing?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Anna Turley on the North East becoming the UK's child poverty hotspot | Upgrading the 76-mile Transpennine rail between Manchester and York
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Northern Agenda: Oliver Coppard on South Yorkshire's buses | Tris Brown on 100 ideas for the North
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Louise Haigh on why she thinks Boris Johnson's Red Wall will crumble | Sir Robert Goodwill on fishing, levelling up, and the prime minister
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Lexit: Should Leigh split from Wigan? | The prejudices against northern accents
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Wakefield by-election special: The Northern Agenda and YorkshireLive hustings
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Jacob Young on the confidence vote and why every MP should be a 'levelling up MP' | James Daly on the question of sport in the North
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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How the Tories are faring in the North's big cities – and why the party has no councillors in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Lisa Nandy on Labour's vision for levelling up | Tory MP Miriam Cates on why a manufacturing revival is needed in the North
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May 26, 2022 |
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Susan Hinchcliffe on why Bradford should be a test case for levelling up | IPPR North's Zoe Billingham on her new job | Community Powers Act
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May 19, 2022 |
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Tracy Brabin on her first year as West Yorkshire mayor | Author Sam Bright on the injustices between London and the North
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May 12, 2022 |
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A 2022 local elections special | Rachael Maskell on trains in the North | Manchester Tech Festival and the digital divide
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May 06, 2022 |
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Damien Moore MP on war memorials | Professor Helen Marshall on higher technical education | The fight for overall control in Stockport
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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TUC's Frances O'Grady on getting tough against "corporate gangsters" | The most radical shake-up to North Yorkshire politics in decades
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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The influential Northerners you've (probably) never heard of | Local election focus on Wirral
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Catherine McKinnell on the cost of living crisis | How politicians can win over the countryside | Who'll be next South Yorkshire mayor?
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Dan Jarvis on his time as the Mayor of South Yorkshire and why he is stepping down | Sir John Curtice's predictions for the local elections
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Reaction to Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement | Durham's bid to become the 2025 UK City of Culture
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Behind the scenes at The Northern Agenda Live
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Highlights from The Northern Agenda Live
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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🇺🇦 Why Rochdale is "standing shoulder to shoulder" with Ukraine | The dentistry crisis in the North
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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🚍 Northern bus crisis: a special report from The Northern Agenda
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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How Northern Gritstone is hoping to bridge the North-South research funding gap | What do communities want from net zero?
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Lisa Nandy MP on Michael Gove and the Levelling Up white paper | 5 things you need to know about politics in Cumbria
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Labour's Laura Pidcock on why she quit the NEC and her thoughts on Keir Starmer | How businesses are coping with Covid and net zero
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Reaction to the Levelling Up White Paper: what does it mean for the North?
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Jake Berry MP on why he is backing Boris Johnson | The cost of school uniforms in Wakefield | The politics of Liverpool
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Scott Benton MP on Boris Johnson's leadership and THAT defection | Levelling up Northern culture | 5 things you need to know about Sheffield
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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The Northern Agenda: Clean Air Zone special | Reactions from Greater Manchester, Newcastle, and York
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Omicron surges in the North West | Tim Farron on holiday lets, farming and the Lib Dems | The politics of York
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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It's a Northern Agenda Christmas Quiz!
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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What Greater Manchester thinks about levelling up | Sedgefield MP Paul Howell | 5 things you need to know about Middlesbrough
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Why rising inequality is costing the North billions | How Labour can win back northern heartlands with Alex Cunningham MP |
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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The Yorkshire village turning into a ghost town | Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake on rebelling on the social care levy | The People's Powerhouse
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Manchester MP Afzal Khan on Islamophobia | The winter and Covid pressures on the NHS | 5 things you need to know about Lancashire
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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An Integrated Rail Plan or the 'great train robbery'? | Five things you need to know about politics in Northumberland
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Our demand for the government to keep its rail promises | Philip Davies & Susan Hinchcliffe on Northern Powerhouse Rail and HS2 in Bradford
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Jamie Driscoll on why the government should lend the North of Tyne £500m | Why poor public transport is costing the North | Politics of Hull
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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What the Autumn Statement means for the North | Bridget Phillipson's reaction to the Budget | 5 things you need to know about Oldham
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Net zero and the North | What you think about the 'Levelling Up' agenda | Redcar MP Jacob Young | Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram on 'levelling up' minister Michael Gove | Sheffield's youngest - and only Tory - councillor | Life expectancy
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Examining the plight of the North's hard-pressed town halls | Takeaways from the Conservative Party Conference
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Preview of the Conservative Party Conference | Ben Houchen on 'levelling up' and other metro mayors
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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The Northern Agenda launches! Preview of the Labour Party Conference | John McDonnell on leadership vote reforms | Ian Byrne on Hillsborough
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Interview with Lisa Nandy
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Election Special - The Morning After
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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On the Battle-Bus
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Word on the street
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Manifestos
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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The Not-Brexit Election
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Mopping Up
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Winter Is Coming
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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The North Poll - Trailer
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Nov 05, 2019 |