Manchester

Bev Craig is ready to shrug off Andy Burnham’s shadow

Labour’s Manchester mayoral candidate is prepared to be a “critical friend” to the new PM

By Megan Kenyon

Who will be Manchester’s next King – or Queen – in the North?

At a hustings in Manchester, the mayoral candidates traded blows and brags

By Will Dunn

The Green plan to steal the Manchester mayoralty

The Prime Minister has left a vacancy that Zack Polanski’s party would love to fill

By Megan Kenyon

Andy Burnham isn’t the only King in the North

Will John Swinney’s SNP collaborate with the new prime minister – or resist him?

By Chris Deerin

The Greens are ready to fight Andy Burnham

Zack Polanski plans to paint Burnham as a continuity Starmerite

By Megan Kenyon

Burnham’s choice of chancellor is the most crucial he will make

Whoever takes the job must deliver Burnham’s vision, not their own

By Tom McTague

Manchesterism is not socialism

Andy Burnham’s city is a neoliberal metropolis

By Isaac Rose

The limits of Andy Burnham

Manchesterism is sounding a lot like Londonism

By David Edgerton and Karel Williams

Two visions for Labour’s future

Labour is being told to pick a side in a battle of economic arguments. We say the future will be…

By Mark McVitie and Mathew Lawrence

Am I a chin-scratching intellectual?

I appeared in a walk-on role in an excellent profile of Andy Burnham

By Tom McTague

Can Andy Burnham survive the pressure of Westminster?

He calls his approach “Manchesterism” – but he looks lost when he tries to define it

By Joshi Herrmann

Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?

Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come

By Megan Kenyon

Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism

The Manchester mayor has launched his bid to return to parliament

By Megan Kenyon

The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism

If Labour has the courage to build a productive state, the party could truly reshape Britain for the better

By Mathew Lawrence

If not Burnham, who could defeat Starmer?

Wes Streeting is the biggest winner from the NEC officers’ decision

By Ben Walker

Andy Burnham: Britain is still “in hock to the bond markets”

The Greater Manchester mayor set out his case for “business friendly socialism”

By Ethan Croft

Manchester and the jihadi war against Jews

Jihad al-Shamie emerged from a British subculture contaminated with violence

By Shiraz Maher

Can Shabana Mahmood win Jewish trust after Manchester?

The burden of the government’s response to last week’s anti-Semitic attack will fall on the Home Secretary

By Ethan Croft

Kemi Badenoch rages against the dying of the right

The Tories head to Manchester, dejected and rudderless

By Rachel Cunliffe

My hair-raising deputy leadership race

Also this week: A ticking off from Mum, and all aboard the Man City bus

By Lucy Powell