Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one | Zoe Williams

Both left and right have it in for Britain’s capital. But is London a stabby wasteland, a den of faceless bureaucrats, or just a mess of overprivileged wokerati? ‘I’ve seen no evidence of Andy being anti-London,” the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, told the Evening Standard last week, which is quaint and adorable: evidenc

Ashington is an old coal mining town in the North East of England that fell by the wayside during the deindustrialisation of the Margaret Thatcher era. Its last pit closed in 1986 and its largest employer, an aluminum smelter, shut down in 2012.

Andy Burnham said Sir Sadiq Khan and other regional leaders in England will get to keep a portion of income tax and business rates to spend as part of a major devolution shake-up

LABOUR prime ministers have a strange relationship with the media.