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Want more productivity, Rachel Reeves? It’s time to embrace Mancunian swagger

Manchester is closing the gap on London, with public money having helped to ‘crowd in’ a lot of private investment

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on gambling: a public reckoning with the dark side of this highly profitable industry is overdue

Editorial: Gordon Brown says gambling is undertaxed, Andy Burnham wants the power to block new gaming centres – and ministers should pay attention

The Guardian - UK

Missing out on £54m research fund ‘undermines’ northern universities, say mayors

The elected mayors warned that investment was ‘concentrated disproportionately in London and the South East’.

Evening Standard

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‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London?

£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or worse

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham calls on Starmer to tackle ‘explosion of homelessness’

A damning report warned of an ‘explosion of homelessness’ since Covid

The Independent UK

High-street slot machines reap record takings as councils call for power to curb spread

Local authorities want government to make it easier to stop flurry of ‘adult gaming centres’ targeting poorer areas

The Guardian - UK

If ministers want to see how welfare reform can be done, come see us in Greater Manchester

Prevention beats cure in our view. Targeting issues like housing, personal debt and mental health will get people into work and cut the benefits bill, says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham

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Police chief vows ‘relentless’ pursuit of grooming gangs

It comes after a largely positive report about Greater Manchester Police’s turnaround in tackling the gangs.

Evening Standard

Police force investigating more than 1,000 grooming gang suspects

Watchdog says Greater Manchester Police has made ‘significant improvements’ following years of failure.

The Independent UK

Greater Manchester Police investigating 1,000 grooming gang suspects, watchdog says

Andy Burnham said ‘never again will any child here be labelled or dismissed’ after a report found significant improvements in the force’s response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

GMP better on grooming gangs as more than 1,000 suspects under investigation

Watchdog says Greater Manchester Police has made ‘significant improvements’ following years of failure.

Evening Standard

Labour in chaos as rebels demand more welfare concessions

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The Independent UK

Who are the key Labour rebels in the revolt against Starmer’s welfare bill?

A day before the crucial vote, here are the party figures leading the debate on the prime minister’s welfare reforms

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham urges MPs to vote against Labour’s welfare reforms

Ministers hope the concessions to welfare Bill will be enough to avert a backbench rebellion

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Liz Kendall ignores call from Labour MP for welfare bill to be withdrawn – as it happened

Andy McDonald says MPs are being asked to vote without vital evidence but work and pensions secretary says employment support programmes are being improved

Evening Standard

Starmer to press on with welfare reforms as 120 Labour MPs prepare to defy him

The Prime Minister said the ‘broken’ welfare system must be fixed.

Evening Standard

We will do everything we can to save Alexander Dennis jobs, vows Swinney

It came as the bus manufacturer proposes to consolidate its UK operations in North Yorkshire and close its Falkirk factory.

Evening Standard

Burnham presses Scottish Government on Alexander Dennis factory closure

The bus manufacturer has proposed to consolidate its operations in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

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The Independent UK

Voices: How Labour’s spending review was shaped by Reform UK

COMMENT: The chancellor insisted her choices were ‘Labour choices’. But as I watched her deliver her statement, I couldn’t help thinking that much of it was aimed at seeing off the rising threat to Labour from Nigel Farage, writes Andrew Grice

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s muddled politics are reaching their limit. It’s time for him to make a choice

Veer left or double down on the right? Either way, the prime minister needs to commit and sell it to an impatient electorate, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch challenges Starmer at PMQs over winter fuel payment U-turn, Chagos deal and child benefit cap – as it happened

Tory leader says PM should apologise to pensioners and asks how U-turn will be funded

The Independent UK

Voices: First Sadiq, now Andy… will no one rid Keir Starmer of his turbulent mayors?

COMMENT: As the mayor of Greater Manchester proposes a ‘popular left programme’ – just days after the mayor of London defied Downing Street with a new plan for drug laws – is the prime minister under threat from colleagues with their own fiefdoms, asks John Rentoul

The Guardian - UK

English mayors push for visitor levy to boost income from tourism

Group led by Steve Rotheram says introducing local tourism tax would empower regional growth

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Labour minister calls for wealth tax and public investment in June spending review

Exclusive: Ex-minister to call for wealth tax, and Andy Burnham to demand focus on housing and education

The Independent UK

Infected blood victims ‘left in dark’ over compensation, Andy Burnham warns

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, who once served as health secretary, also called for criminal investigations into the scandal.

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