MINISTERS will store up serious social and economic problems unless they re-write their inadequate regeneration strategy, it will be claimed today.Read
MINISTERS have been accused of breaking a promise to hear the region’s case after cancelling a planned consultation on what should happen to a multi-million pound jobs agency.Read
FORCING cities like Newcastle to hold referenda on whether to have an elected mayor will be a political “car crash”, the Government has been warned.Read
REFORM of the House of Lords is inevitable, a senior North East Tory peer claimed last night. Lord Bates backed the move and declared he would stand “enthusiastically” for election to the second chamber.Read
FORMER North police chiefs have attacked the Government’s “extraordinary” plans for elected police commissioners and warned it risks high-level corruption.Read
MINISTERS have told The Journal the coalition will hold together despite Labour seizing on “toxic” exchanges between Tories and Liberal Democrats over changing the voting system.Read
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