It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.
I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.
I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
