Opinion

From: Colin Pyrah, Beckhole, Whitby.

From: John Collins, Leeds.

THE tech industry is booming. The growth rate for digital jobs is more than double that of non-digital jobs, and in 2015, the turnover of the UK digital tech industry was estimated at £170bn.

Despite a degree in political science and a psephologist’s interest in elections, I did not see the general election result coming.

TOMORROW Theresa May will have been our Prime Minister for exactly one year. She was the longest-serving Home Secretary for 60 years and then had a record honeymoon in No 10 with a 23-point lead in the polls over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at one stage.

There have been repeated calls over the years that have fallen on deaf ears but now the Government has confirmed there will be an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that claimed the lives of at least 2,400 people.

From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.

From: John Seymour, Church Fenton, Tadcaster.

From: Fiona Lemmon, Clifton Byres, Clifton, Maltby, Rotherham.

THE Northern Powerhouse Minister did make one point abundantly clear during a fact-finding visit to Leeds – he is totally against a Yorkshire-wide devolution deal.

THERE could be no starker illustration of the burdens borne by our overworked, underpaid public sector than the despairing account of a teaching assistant I met last week.

IT’S been a dream come true to head up the Great Yorkshire Show, an event close to my heart. Never did I realise when I was a young boy sat in the grandstand with my parents that I would be in the position I am now.

LIKE many people, I like to relax at the end of the day by watching the television, but as I move ever-closer to my dotage I find I am increasingly unwilling to waste precious time watching the dross that so often masquerades as entertainment.

Since first being coined the phrase Northern Powerhouse has been the target for more than its fair share of brickbats.

From: Gordon Lawrence, Sheffield.

From: Mrs MW Whitaker, Harswell, East Yorkshire.

From: Jane Fairburn, Rievaulx, Helmsley, York.

diana jOHNSON, the Hull North MP, deserves great credit for championing victims of the contaminated blood scandal in the 1970s and 1980s that led to the deaths of around 2,400 people. Without her persistence, six opposition leaders would not be backing calls for a Hillsborough-style inquiry.

IT’S IRONIC that Theresa May is now calling for cross-party consensus on the great issues facing the country when she is the Prime Minister who risked all with an unnecessary General Election – and then spent six weeks rubbishing her opponents.