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Northern correspondent, Financial Times. Ex-Manchester Evening News. ‘Cynical’ - Boris Johnson. @Cape_acuk fellow at @OfficialUoM jennifer.g.williams @ft .com

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A year ago, I started following how the cost of living crisis was playing out at an Oldham school, checking in with the fantastic @NewmanRC_Head every few weeks. I ended up learning a lot about the British state, and its education system, to boot.
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One year in a struggling British state school

Battered by the pandemic and the rising cost of living, UK schools like Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham are at the front line of a profound national crisis

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Once you realise Number 10 were all drunk all of the time, 2020 starts to make more sense
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This is so great.
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‘I came on your programme to talk about transport matters,’ says Shapps, ‘as my expertise lies in transport.’ ‘Well since your expertise lies in transport, did Dominic Cummings stop off anywhere between London and Durham?’ 🔥 #marr
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Happy Wednesday, or whatever the hell day it is
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To the cold caller who managed to defraud my very sharp mother out of £350 when she was sick: I'm going to take you down. Good luck.
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Er yeah sooo... personal news? After eleven and a half years, hundreds of council meetings and what I'm pretty confident has been literally millions of Andy Burnham press conferences, I'm waving goodbye to the wonderful Manchester Evening News, to join the FT as northern corr.
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This feels like that day where British productivity was put on hold because everyone was watching planes trying to land
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For the millionth time: there are 15m or so people in the North of England. It isn’t good enough to brief vaguely about ‘people in the north of England’. Which people Where What Do better. I’m trying not to swear or cry
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I lost my lovely mum two weeks ago, the most deeply compassionate, calmly determined (zero messing) person I’ve ever met and a secretly incredible writer. My normal service may be sporadic for a while, but otherwise I’ll carry her in everything I write x
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A few years ago mum started feeding a pregnant cat that had gone it alone from a local farm. A dynasty began. Each morning she now opens the door to a polite queue. Anyway last wk a hedgehog appeared with them...today, he had already risen in stature to the front of the queue 🦔
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Don’t want to put current/future journalists off, but I think it’s important to be honest that when you write a story govt could shout at you about, it makes you feel sick. Wobbly, panicky, paranoid. Govt behaves how it does (atm) because it knows it works. And it does. 1/
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Govt really needs to stop with the ‘but we were working all hours to save the country’ excuse. The NHS were working all hours, social care, local govt, logistics people, vaccine manufacturers, the list goes on. It’s *not a good argument, stop saying it*
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Tomorrow's Manchester Evening News. We're doing (another, because it's necessary) pan-northern campaign tomorrow with other titles, ahead of the govt rail plan.
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What a revelation to discover Matt Hancock thinks councils are best placed to solve child poverty. That’ll be the Manchester council that has to save ~£100m this yr, on top of ~£400m since 2010, in a city with one of the highest child poverty rates in the country.
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Seen a few journalists now on here excusing Boris Johnson for not knowing the lockdown rules, bc it’s ever-such-hard-thing-to-remember. No. The point of public health messaging is clarity. If the prime minister can’t or won’t remember what it is, it points to policy failure.
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This is wild. Shortly before the locals it emerged a Tory candidate in Hartlepool had just been convicted of battery. He still stood for the Tories, pictured here with Boris Johnson. Last night he was reelected; now he’s been suspended
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Hartlepool Tory councillor suspended by party after assaulting partner

The Conservative councillor who hung on to his seat despite details of the crime emerging 'totally regrets this' says his partner

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Hahahaha just caught up with the Daily Mail piece making out Didsbury is a no-go zone for white people
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Seems I’m firmly on the government’s shitlist then. Twitter is bad enough already without the state itself organising pile ons
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Today has been a good day for the British press. It’s impossible not to sound a little holier than though about this, but I’m a bit stubbornly romantic about my job. We exist to make power accountable and that’s what happened today
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So...a bit like Surestart then
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If Jess Phillips and Boris Johnson had an actual physical fight, I'd put my money on Birmingham over Uxbridge
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Oh cheers for that Amanda Holden, really helping us with the pariah status
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There’s a Tory peer on Newsnight saying Boris Johnson was always a campaigner but maybe wasn’t ever someone to be in government Thanks, I’d got there on my own
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Can’t just be me who now periodically feels uneasy during films because they’re not social distancing
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V tired and more happy that this is over. But I WILL end it on my own terms. So. To the Corbyn fans who managed to make me nervous about doing my job Guess what I knew what I was talking about. BYE
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Completely packed out #EnoughlsEnough event at Manchester cathedral, with tons more people outside. Eddie Dempsey and Andy Burnham among those due to speak shortly
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Tell you what, don’t think the Tories had this in mind when they insisted we must have a mayor
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Anyone else decided to just stick with what they were doing before? For my own mental health’s sake as much as anything else
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Ok. Breathe. It seems the story government has been shouting at me about all day has been confirmed by Andy Burnham, who a) says in a letter to govt that the hotel policy has been wrapped up and b) says we don’t have enough money for the next bit
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Mayor demands cash and clarity over scrapping of Covid hotel policy for homeless

Andy Burnham has written to Secretary of State after the M.E.N. revealed the ‘Everyone In’ approach had been wound up. He confirmed there are significant concerns over the practicalities and funding...

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The answer is to know as many people, who you trust, as possible. That’s it. Do you feel comfortable about what you’ve just written? If you had six conversations with people in a position to know and they all said yeah, you’re right, then: F the government.
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New research out from @IPPRNorth today shows public spending since ‘levelling up’ was unveiled - three years ago this week - has risen more in London than anywhere else; lowest rises in the north. It says levelling up has been ‘business as usual’
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Apologies for the self indulgence, but omg
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There’s been two meat factories shut down in north Wales now; an outbreak in a meat factory in Germany; and the outbreak at a meat market in Beijing. I’m almost sure this is a stupid q but would be good to know the answer: is that significant?
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Excl: Government quietly winds up hotel scheme for the homeless
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Exclusive: Government quietly scraps scheme to put homeless people in hotels

EXCLUSIVE: The ‘Everyone In’ policy, launched by the government in March, has been wound up

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Outside of the political fun, this is so depressing. Most if not all the ministers in the levelling up department have gone. There’s great big gaping policy black holes everywhere. God alone knows what’s going on with the chancellor. We’re effectively without a government
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The political panic about city centres is not about city centres in general, it’s about London. A fundamental shift will of course knock Manchester too, but that’s not what’s driving No 10. The panic in No 10 is that London doesn’t look like it should.
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does this include trains, because
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Only the @Conservatives will give people the freedom to travel how they want and when they want. Our long-term plan means: 🚗 smoother journeys 🚙 stopping unfair enforcement 🚗 easier parking 🚙 cracking down on inconsiderate driving More here 👇
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Bloody hell
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Ok so, here goes. My (long-researched) attempt to explain why so many allegations are flying about in relation to Ben Houchen, the former steelworks in Redcar and, by extension, the Teesside freeport
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NEW: hearing the R number in the North West and South West has now tipped over 1, according to the latest PHE/Cambridge University analysis. More shortly
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Not seen any national front pages mentioning the Manchester grooming scandal tomorrow. Why? Is 57 potential victims not enough? Multiple institutional failures too boring? No longer news? Cba?
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I’m going to the pub. Yes, yes I am
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Let’s break this down. 1. We didn’t say you were winding up resource for rough sleeping. Grow up. 2. Nobody accused you of reneging on anything because you didn’t promise anything to renege on. 3. 90% of rough sleepers housed under ‘everyone in’ have not been housed here.
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Today’s @MENnewsdesk inaccurately suggests that the Government is winding up its support for rough sleepers helped off the streets during the coronavirus pandemic. This is simply wrong. Read the facts here 👇
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Almost a quarter of the HS2 money, unless I’ve misunderstood the background paper, is going on pothole repairs
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The PM doesn't really look like he knows how to deal with an Angela Rayner, or perhaps what one is. #PMQs
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Love that nowhere in any of the discussion about our prospective PMs is what any of one of them might do
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I’ve figured it out. The UK government is participating in a not-governing pilot, for which it was randomly selected out of 1 govts who applied.
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@paulmasonnews @politico Ooft. This tweet says more about you than it does local radio
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That Hartlepool cllr who stood in the locals for the tories *a week after being convicted of battery* - and won - has now quit, where to start with all that
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"Hartlepool Conservative councillor Gordon Cranney has resigned a full 24 hours into his new term of office. The councillor, who pleaded guilty on 28 April to assaulting his wife by beating, announced his resignation today..."
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Nice. Greater Manchester procured a load of hotel rooms for the homeless, including at Britannia hotels. Yesterday Britannia evicted them despite the agreement, according to @AndyBurnhamGM
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“She knows she can’t compete with Boris’s Oxford Union debating training.” Stay classy guys
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Tories accuse Labour’s Angela Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson:
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Blimey. A man just got carted out by security after getting up and interrupting the PM’s speech. ‘Why are you not in Parliament sitting out the mess you’ve created?’
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Have only just noticed this on the wall of a meeting room in our office and it’s cheered me right up 🐝
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Got his dark materials to watch on catch-up first but noted
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Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, & see the just released ststement from Ukraine. Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know & mostly never even heard of, & work out a better presidential attack!
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I assume this is channelling the Union Jack, but it does also remind me a bit of the Tesco value range
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Pub last night had been told it would have to close because toasties don’t count as a substantial meal. (Whoever drew up that rule has never been a student.) Made us wonder though whether if it was rebranded as a panini, that would count.
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@LiamThorpECHO Should they not have been in touch before to see how the man the size of a thumb was getting on?
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Hearing Sunderland is about to declare
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Angela Smith: ‘I don’t want to be patronised by left wing intellectuals who think being poor and working class constitutes a state of grace’
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This time last year Avanti had cut services down the west coast. Govt provided only a temporary contract extension while it monitored performance. Then it gave it its contract back and services are immediately slashed again. So what exactly has the govt been monitoring
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Manchester: 60.4% remain Liverpool: 58.2% remain Stockport: 52.3% remain South Lakeland: 52.9% remain Gwynedd: 58.1% remain Etc
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After a good sleep (and an even better curry) and in the full knowledge I’m probably going to have to work today, have been thinking about the past couple of days. So, a thread
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Right well before I go to the pub and get even more emotional, just want to say what an absolutely immense privilege it has been to work at the Manchester Evening News, and before that the Stockport Express. Tomorrow will be for 15 years, to the day, since I joined.
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NO. Enough
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Cathedral Gardens, Manchester ❤️
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In what world is £30k of someone else’s free money not enough to refurbish your flat anyway
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Oh no, this is so tone deaf.
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Over the next few weeks I'm speaking to industry leaders and experts to hear how they've reacted to the pandemic. It starts tomorrow with @GordonRamsay who sat down with me to talk about the challenges facing hospitality and how he launched a TV show in lockdown. #PlanForJobs
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Jacob Rees Mogg on R4: suggesting chaos in the bond markets is due to the mini budget is a breach of BBC impartiality.
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Meanwhile, apparently it’s fine to announce that we won’t be allowed to leave Greater Manchester via a Sunday front page briefing, because that definitely hasn’t made people really angry before
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Thankyou to @jburnmurdoch for the graphs that tell the story. This one is the one that underpins all of it
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Ok well here’s my very angry comment piece about Manchester’s child abuse scandal. I don’t know what more to say, except that I’m off for a glass of wine now.
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The children with no voice, the people who spoke up, and those who didn't listen

For those who had the power to stop the Manchester paedophile scandal there are no more excuses, says Jen Williams.

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Is there technically any rule against Nadine Dorries being the whole cabinet
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Disappearing to watch Netflix now but first a plea: journalists are working their arses off to bring information about this pandemic. Mostly what we provide is consumed for free. Sometimes the pettiest criticisms are, weirdly, the most infuriating. Pls bear our sanity in mind 🙏
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Tomorrow’s front page.
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Feels like August is a dangerous month. No MPs sitting. Many journalists on holiday. Not much in the way of lobby briefings. Track and trace looking troubled in a really crucial way. We might look back on this month and regret that
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You can’t just keep bringing the same pissing deal back, John Bercow says. I paraphrase but only just
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Northern newspaper front pages this morning. Am told there was a degree of panic about this yesterday when it dawned on govt we were all doing it #OneNorth
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Shout out to the *wasted* guy who sat down near me in the park at lunchtime and told me he’d had enough of lockdown and enough of his kids so had got totally off his face and gone into the woods for three hours. ‘I tried to make a fire with sticks but it didn’t work.’
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Keep thinking about govt threatening to withhold £ for a high school in Radcliffe, which has been *desperate* for one for years. The freewheeling contempt. It’s the same feeling I had when I watched Jacob Rees Mogg’s comments about Douglas Ross. You see how you’re seen
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I’ll believe austerity is over - and that the govt is serious about helping some of the northern communities it has just won - when I see local government funded properly. Ten years of writing the same articles only makes that all the more true
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It’s three years today since the bomb. So many people lost someone or were physically or emotionally scarred. It’s not forgotten and what’s going on now doesn’t detract from it. Love to everyone who will find today especially hard 🐝❤️
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I for one won’t believe our govt really cares about fish until
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Gov building in India - National Fisheries Development Board
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Two GM Tories just voted with Labour on Covid financial support: William Wragg and Chris Green
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Never seem to see contact tracing mentioned anymore in the government’s list of solutions. Wasn’t there an app
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I’m sure people have probably already assumed this but the £12bn announced for Manchester to Leeds today is not new money
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Next time the Truss campaign says (as IDS did today) that tax cuts DO benefit the poorest because they’ll grow the economy, can some please ask exactly how much they expect to have grown the economy by the time energy bills go up again in October
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‘Don’t give us devolution and be surprised if we answer you back.’
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Fascinating reading about all these cabinet ministers lining up to warn of the job losses London would see if it was inconceivably put in tier 3. Wonder how many have sat in cabinet making the same arguments re Manchester
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Mr Gove told 500,000 jobs at risk if he got his wish to close London

Mr Johnson 'looked askance', one source said, as Mr Gove called for London to be subject to tier 3 restrictions, despite the savage impact it would have on the capital's economy.

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Jennifer Williams
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4 years
I mean, totally this.
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No way can workers in tier 3 be paid over two thirds pay, govt ministers told Manchester! It can’t be done! It doesn’t make economic sense! Less than two weeks later - national furlough (80% pay) extended.
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I wonder what would have happened this summer if the Covid patterns we’ve seen in the north of England had begun in London first. Would randomly changing measures have been imposed across different bits of the capital? Or would parliament have been recalled and the alarm sounded?
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7 years
This one wins so far I think
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4 years
Oh look. There’s a shock. I’ll pencil in ‘row about northern circuit break funding’ for three weeks’ time
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Government 'considering Tier 4 local lockdowns'

It's been reported some shops and restaurants could close under the 'Tier 3 plus' or 'Tier 4' proposals

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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4 years
The other thing about this ‘go back to the office or be sacked’ message (which doesn’t sound very legal) is that people wfh do still spend money. Maybe not in the city centre, but in the place they live. Weren’t they bothered about towns/local high sts during the election?
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Jennifer Williams
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2 years
Are we not at recall parliament stage now
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8 months
On great rail cancellations, a reminder that the expansion of Piccadilly, intended to alleviate the chronic northern rail bottleneck in the centre of Manc, was promised a decade ago, then put on ice, messed about with and actually only officially cancelled a few months ago.
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Because they’re children
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4 years
Me on the Manchester child abuse scandal and how some victims are treated as less important than others, even now, basically because of class.
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The horrible truth is that some female victims are seen as less important than others | Jennifer...

Where was the outrage over Manchester’s many abused and betrayed children?

www.theguardian.com
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Jennifer Williams
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10 months
There’s been lots of commentary on Charlotte Owen, but less so re a peerage for a mayor currently under investigation by the government
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