A Danish politician this week bared all in a selection of nude posters ahead of the country’s elections later this month.

The current Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner was chosen by a panel representing the 10 Greater Manchester councils and beat off competition from Wigan Council leader Lord Peter Smith.

Over the last 65 years the Greater Manchester constituency of Cheadle has been a battleground between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, becoming used to the political pendulum swinging between the two without being challenged from outsiders.

A Greater Manchester Labour MP has said it will be ‘catastrophic’ if the future leadership ignore Ed Miliband’s suffering at the hands of the right-wing press or water down what the party stands for.

The rally, outside Manchester City Library in St Peter’s Square, was led by those who have taken up residence in tents around the corner in Albert Square and was also attended by supporters and representatives from RAPAR, the Manchester-based human rights organisation.

Split across two venues votes were counted for 22 out of 32 electoral wards at the Velodrome, granting a welcomed success for Labour.

This is a sad day for Britain. We weren’t expecting – or even asking for – a revolution, but a lot of people I know were looking for some kind of change to a system with which millions feel extreme disaffection.

Labour’s night appeared to be over before it had begun after BBC’s exit poll – but at least they had something to shout about at the Manchester Velodrome.

Nuttall, who secured a majority of just 325 from Labour’s James Frith, said he believed the win was down to his record as MP.

Pirate Party leader Loz Kaye believes Ed Miliband’s Labour campaign has lacked a ‘compelling alternative’ as momentum appears to favour the Conservatives this morning.

In what was once a Liberal Democrat-Labour swing seat, Rochdale Lib Dem candidate Andy Kelly has lamented his party’s time in government as the source of a collapsed vote in the constituency.