This week, the government showed its true colours in its contemptuous treatment of Greater Manchester. After days of negotiations with Mayor Andy Burnham and council leaders, a package of support to help businesses and jobs as Greater Manchester was placed into the highest tier 3 covid risk category, was on…

I’m writing this on my way home from London, and the situation in relation to local covid restrictions back in Manchester remains totally unclear. The pace of the rise in the infection is really alarming, and on Thursday morning the deputy chief medical officer warned Greater Manchester MPs that if…

I wasn’t in parliament for the first couple of days this week, and by the time I got to Westminster on Wednesday, the government was running out of business for us to debate and vote on. That’s been a feature of Boris Johnson’s chaotic and incompetent government: insisting we come…