Emma Shanks reports on the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care hustings in the lead-up to the Mayoral Election

UKIP candidate for Manchester Withington, Mark Davies, has referred to disabled people as ‘weak’ and has said that women who ‘go away’ deserve to be paid less

The Mancunion liveblogs the unofficial hustings for this year’s Exec Team elections

– Colin Cortbus pledges to cut Students’ Union executive from eight to four at election hustings – Grace Skelton, James Johnson criticise the proposal