The warning comes as colleagues across Manchester last night faced a race against time to register for a crucial ballot on strike action.

As the Conservatives arrived in Manchester for their annual conference, protesters responded by warning that they would ‘lay siege’ to the event, so Tories knew they ‘were not welcome in the city’.

On final day of Tory Party Conference, anti-Trident activists protest at public money lining corporate pockets at nearby JACOBS Engineering.

The anti-austerity protests continued last night as protestors were on Canal Street to project their anger at cuts affecting the LGBT community.

Disability rights activists joined tens of thousands of protestors against the Conservative Party Conference, saying the government see disabled people as a ‘soft target’ for cuts.

Four people were arrested yesterday as tens of thousands of people marched through Manchester City Centre in protest against the Conservative Party Conference.

MM looks at the best fringe events taking place this year’s conference, to give activists a peak beyond the security fence and help delegates to decide where to go.

Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh described the Tory government as a ‘fucking proper enemy’ at a theatre night to raise awareness of cuts and the importance of trade unions yesterday.

NHS Employers cancelled all scheduled meetings, at which junior doctors were hoping to voice their concerns about new contracts, one day before the Manchester meeting was due to take place at the Midland Hotel.

Students from Manchester Metropolitan University yesterday came together to protest against the eviction of homeless people from The Ark shelter under Mancunian Way.

Homeless people living at ‘The Ark’ homeless camp under Mancunian Way on Oxford Road have been evicted, following a possession order being confirmed by the High Court on Wednesday.