The Rochdale result is certainly more than a little local difficulty for Labour. Some of the party's MPs shared privately their thoughts on the Galloway victory. Overall, the feeling was one of ...

Liberal Democrats and Labour, has left the party over "Tory sleaze". Kathleen Nickson, who represents Balderstone and Kirkholt on Rochdale Council, joined the Tories in 2020. She said she had left ...

This week Simon Danczuk, the former Labour MP for Rochdale, told me that on several ... public inquiry into the scandal. Again, the party’s warped values have been on full display, as Sir ...

Follow the latest news on the general election results in Greater Manchester. This seat is shown as a Labour hold, despite the by-election earlier in the last Parliament. This is because change ...

Labour says it has "withdrawn support" for its Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali after he allegedly told a party meeting that Israel had "allowed" the deadly attacks by Hamas gunmen on 7 ...