Historically, our greatest weakness has been to place far too much confidence in government and demonstrate too little confidence in ourselves.
Labour doesn’t own the North – it never did – and Conservatives can win here.
I did not put pen to paper before last night’s result. But I now need to express my concern.
The Cabinet Secretary told my committee that contingency planning was actually banned by the Government.
Why does Labour always run the region down?
Our Local Police and Crime Commissioner should remember that correlation doesn’t equal causation.
A good start in wooing Tyneside’s voters would be getting its name right.
My home area’s furious response to left-wing slander shows the red rosettes are flimsier than they might seem.
“An irresponsible and foolish article…So much of it was wrong…A dreadful, lazy comparison…It violates the region.”
London has morphed into an economic giant, creating a black hole, sucking in the best talent from the rest of the UK.
Transport improvements are boosting enterprise.