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May 16 2011, 5.47AM Inside the M60
Blame Pickles and the Manchester Evening News for our defeat says Lib Dem activist
The whitewash of the Lib Dems in the local council elections wasn’t down to lack of effort says Manchester Lib Dem activist David Hennigan. W...
March 31 2011, 8.15AM Inside the M60
Hackney cabs, NHS and George Osborne – all in a day’s work for Manchester City Council
A meeting that started with a minute’s silence for the victims of the Japanese and New Zealand earthquakes finished in a procedural tangle. I...
February 10 2011, 8.20AM Inside the M60
Ashley joins Lib Dem grassroots revolt against speed of council cuts
The leader of Manchester’s Liberal Democrats, Councillor Simon Ashley, is one of 88 Lib Dem council chiefs who have written to The Times toda...
February 3 2011, 6.06AM Inside the M60
New venue, new acoustics, same arguments – Manchester council debates the cuts
There was a new venue for yesterday’s Manchester City Council meeting but the change of scenery didn’t change the agenda. Government cuts to Ma...
January 14 2011, 8.46AM Inside the M60
Council is playing party politics over cuts, say Lib Dems
Manchester Lib Dem Leader Simon Ashley has reacted to yesterday’s announcement from the city council that 2,000 jobs will go this year. ̶...
December 16 2010, 9.40AM Inside the M60
Manchester’s Lib Dems hold out the hand of peace over cuts
Manchester Liberal Democrats have today offered to join with the Labour Leadership of the Council to jointly lobby ministers to end the frontloadin...
November 19 2010, 1.08PM Inside the M60
Lib Dem leader Ashley-â€Manchester is making progress on the jobs frontâ€
Manchester Lib Dem Leader Simon Ashley has welcomed figures which show a 1.7 per cent drop in unemployment for the city, slightly higher than the U...
November 1 2010, 1.04PM Inside the M60
Hulme by election interview-Grace Baynham Lib Dem candidate
Manchester’s voters get a first chance this Thursday to give their verdict on the new political landscape as the city council’s first w...
October 13 2010, 1.23PM Inside the M60
Party politics dominate council meeting
Outside events seemed to surround this morning’s full council meeting at the Town Hall. Councillors were greeted with a demonstration outside the...
September 25 2010, 9.21AM Inside the M60
Leese and Ashley join forces over Child M deportation
Council Leader Sir Richard Leese and Opposition Leader Simon Ashley have today written to immigration minister Damien Green MP and asked him to hal...
September 21 2010, 10.02AM Inside the M60
Manchester earmarked as investment target by government
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg yesterday named Manchester in his conference speech as one of the cities earmarked to benefit from a new scheme to...
September 7 2010, 3.12PM Inside the M60
Lib-Dems question Manchester Day figures
Manchester’s Lib-Dem politicians have queried the official figures for the city’s first-ever Manchester Day, after they viewed a secret...
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