Manchester MP Lucy Powell is backing the campaign to move Parliament to Manchester after the city was named top choice in a recent poll.

MP Kate Green has pledged to promote more autism awareness in Trafford after people’s understanding of the ‘complex condition’ was deemed ‘desperately low’ by a leading charity boss.

Oldham’s Labour MP Debbie Abrahams has renewed her calls for a full review of Iain Duncan Smith’s ‘draconian’ social security sanctions.

She’s just a small town girl… from Stephenville, Texas, and she needs your help to get across the pond to study how to tackle teen pregnancy and sexual health in Manchester.

Mancunian Matters will be bringing you live coverage of the General Election throughout the night.

As the tension and the media coverage builds in the final leg of the race to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, MM have got in touch with a local politics expert to get his views of how the atmosphere surrounding the General Election has changed in Manchester over the last 32 years.

This year marks the 800th anniversary of one of the most important moments in English history.

With parliament dissolved, all MPs are returning to their constituencies. The door knocking, letter dropping and sign erecting begins.

Hospices like St Ann’s are in need of funding from the £6billion NHS budget devolved to the city, a Manchester MP has told Prime Minister David Cameron.

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher turned a ‘blind eye’ to politicians sexually abusing children, according to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk.

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk felt ‘justified’ in taking home more than £16,000 in extra-Parliamentary income last year from the publication of his exposé on historic child abuse in the town.