Labour may be licking its wounds nationally following the General Election, but at a local level it regained control of a number of local authorities, including Liverpool. During the past forty years, I think I am right in saying that Liverpool has only had the same colour council as the national go... [More]

  One of the unforeseen consequences of the 2010 election result was that the Labour Party may be back in power much sooner than many people thought.  The fact is, despite an unpopular Prime Minister, the biggest economic downturn since the war, the parliamentary expenses scandal and hav... [More]

Downtown Preston, in association with the Northwest Development Agency, Business Link, Marsden Rawsthorn, Moore & Smalley and UCLan, hosted the third annual Lancashire Business Week this week, a programme of events that included presentations and comment from some of the region’s lea... [More]

The Liberal Democrat leadership will be feeling pretty pleased with itself this week. A formal coalition with the Tories, which includes five cabinet posts and a commitment to a referendum on voting reform, appears, on the face of it, a decent deal. However, on managing the budget deficit, Trident ... [More]

After a month long campaign it will be a disappointment, indeed an anti climax to many, who awoke this morning to the news that we have no clear winner of the 2010 General Election. Gordon Brown has demonstrated a dogged determination during his tenure at number ten to hold on to the badge of Prime ... [More]