Alex Sobel

Caroline Nokes, MP for Southampton North and Romsey and Co-Chair of the APPG on Investment Fraud, commented: “Our APPG Inquiry has heard reports of a myriad of ways in which investment and pension fraud victims are being comprehensively failed in the UK right now. There appears to be no justice at all for these victims. HMRC are contributing to poor mental and physical health outcomes for victims, with barely existent policies or safeguarding." (Photo by PA)

HMRC is levying tax charges against investment fraud victims, say MPs

A general view of a domestic home wireless room thermostat. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

People still need help with their energy bills this winter - Alex Sobel

Members of the local consortium who have bought the pub

18th-century Yorkshire pub is saved from development after locals buy it

Queensway Primary School, in Yeadon, has been saved. Picture: Google

Yorkshire school to stay open after council backs down from closure plan

Queensway could be closed down by councillors

Future of under-threat Yorkshire primary school to be discussed next week

Gerald Colgan, 32, is missing from Leeds (Photo: WYP)

Police launch urgent appeal to find missing man not seen for a week

Otley Run ‘fuel on the fire’ fears over McDonald’s Headingley plan

Headingley McDonald’s will pour “fuel on the fire” of rowdy Otley Run behaviour

A person at a near-empty Euston station in London,

Rail bosses and unions urged to 'sit around a table' and resolve strike issues

A Government has ordered a planning inquiry into plans for the Leeds Bradford Airport expansion

MP said inquiry into Leeds Bradford Airport expansion 'could have been avoided'

Leeds MP Alex Sobel has criticised Yorkshire’s "poor handling" of the Azeem Rafiq racism case

MP criticises Yorkshire's 'poor handling' of Azeem Rafiq racism case

Azeem Rafiq playing for Yorkshire in 2017.

Yorkshire chairman called to face MPs over handling of Azeem Rafiq racism claims

Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel with Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi at the gathering in Rome (Supplied by MPs office)

Leeds MP meets with Pope ahead of Cop26 summit

Leeds Mayor visit to Bilal Sports Centre

Yorkshire Cricket and Morrisons deliver 12,000 meals to stop kids going hungry

Visitors in Scarborough. Pictire: James Hardisty.

Returning tourism represents salvation for businesses - The Yorkshire Post says

People by the beach at Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire, July 2021 (PA/Owen Humphreys)

Tourism economy 'reshaping' needed to ensure year-round benefits

The Spa Baths in Olympic diver Jack Laughter's home city of Ripon have now been put up for sale and a new pool is being built nearby

Yorkshire could become 'swimming pool desert' as facilities struggle to survive

How will the privatisation of Channel 4 impact on the broadcaster's relocation to Leeds?

How Leeds will fight to stop Channel 4 sell-off – Alex Sobel

MP Alex Sobel and year 6 pupils at St Joseph's Primary School at Otley.

School in Otley uses football to educate pupils as young as nine about racism

National Holidays’ first customers arriving in Scarborough are greeted by the company’s chief executive officer, Andy Freeth, and the Shadow Minister for Tourism and Heritage, Alex Sobel, following the start of group coach tours. Picture are (left to right) are James Mason, the chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Andy Freeth, the chief executive officer of National Holidays, Maureen Earnshaw and Danny Henry from Huddersfield, and Alex Sobel, the Shadow Minister for Tourism and Heritage. (Picture: Gerard Binks)

Coach tours to Yorkshire coast are heralded as major boost to tourism industry

Coach company Bibby's of Ingleton, pictured at Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which lost thousands last year during the pandemic

'Conflicted guidance' on when coach companies can operate again, say MPs

Starmer during a visit to Elland Road.

Starmer has no chance of becoming PM with anti-business rhetoric - Mark Casci
A public health crisis has contributed to the deaths of more than 125,000 of our citizens.

Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel.

Why this Labour MP is a new ‘enemy’ of business – Yorkshire Post Letters

What is your verdict on GP services?

How GPs are hurting NHS and vaccine rollout – Tom Richmond

Alex Sobel MP speaking, Parents' protest over funding for young people with special educational needs and disabilities outside Leeds City Art Gallery in 2019.

Leeds Labour MP Alex Sobel apologises for describing business as 'the enemy'

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Photo: PA

Government transport jobs created in Leeds amid launch of bus strategy

Alex Sobel has said that a committee of councillors should not have been asked to make the decision on the airport.

MP calls for Government inquiry into Leeds Bradford Airport plans approvals

Sir David Attenborough cautioned against inaction on climate change in a recent documentary.

Climate Emergency; why Leeds Bradford Airport decision is defining test – Alex S...

Harold Best pictured at Meanwood Beck in 1999. Photo: JPI Media

Tributes paid to former Leeds MP Harold Best

Plans for a Clean Air Zone in Leeds have been put on hold.

We need clean air for sake of public health – Yorkshire Post Letters

Stock photo of Leeds Grand theatre.

MPs' plea to Government to give more support to Leeds theatres amid coronavirus

The bar is located on Kirkgate in Otley

Outrage as Otley bar accused of selling drink called 'Rohypnol' to customers

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France started in Leeds in 2014 and was a high point for Welcome to Yorkshire.

Welcome to Yorkshire and tourism need Government support – Alex Sobel
SIX years ago, I was one of the thousands of enthusiastic spectators watching the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in Leeds city centre, just three miles from my house.

Samuel Smith's brewery delivers beer to the Coach and Horses pub in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, as pubs prepare for reopening to members of the public when the lifting of further lockdown restrictions in England comes into effect today (Saturday). Photo: PA

Calls for long-term solution for tourism and hospitality

Leeds Bradford Airport.

Second Leeds MP submits objection to £150m Leeds Bradford Airport expansion

Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel

'Inconsistent' approach to tourism affecting young people's ability to work, say...

Katy Peters, of the London Vaccination Clinic, with a sample of blood after performing a home kit SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody test, in Notting Hill, London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. The home antibody kit uses a simple finger prick blood collection, with the sample then sent to Abbott's molecular Laboratory for analysis. Photo: PA

Leeds handed Government cash in local coronavirus plans trial

Alex Sobel has warned of the threat to dentists. Photo: JPI Media

Dentists 'fearing bankruptcy and ultimately closure' amid coronavirus

Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in Headingley. Picture: James Hardisty

Leeds hospice director issues emotional plea for PPE as stock due to run out 'wi...

Government warned care workers need more than branding badge in fight against co...

New coronavirus measures for care homes as Government told staff 'just need adeq...

MP Alex Sobel delivering PPE to Wheatfields Hospice. Photo: Alex Sobel

'Embarrassing': MP delivers crucial locally-made PPE to hospice as shortages con...

Capita call centre, on the Manvers Industrial Estate near Rotherham. Photo: JPI Media

Capita employee died from coronavirus just two weeks after 16 Yorkshire MPs dema...

Commuters wear masks as a precaution whilst travelling on a London Underground train. Photo: Tolga AKMEN / AFP

16 Yorkshire MPs call on Government to clarify 'key worker' status as region's e...

Coronavirus isolation pods have been set up at Leeds hospitals (Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

NHS in Leeds is 'well prepared' for coronavirus

Alex Sobel MP

Leeds MP Alex Sobel to be assessed for coronavirus after attending conference wi...

The environment has risen up the political agenda.

State of the world is not as bad as we might think – David Alcock

Extinction Rebellion activists in Leeds earlier this year.

Send Extinction Rebellion protesters to China if they’re serious about cutting c...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said thousands of officers from the London force and colleagues from around the country were working long hours in challenging conditions.

Yorkshire officers sent to London to police Extinction Rebellion protests

Many elderly people would like to move but cannot find suitable homes

Yorkshire’s “dangerous” housing crisis among elderly people needs to be averted,...

Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel says a second referendum on Brexit must come before a general election.

We must have a ‘Final Say Public Vote’ on Brexit before a general election – Lab...

Alex Sobel MP gives Northern Pacer trains the thumbs down.

Leeds MP Alex Sobel calls for Northern rail franchise to be nationalised after d...

A student protesting in Sheffield on Friday. Picture: Steve Ellis

Schools’ climate strike pupils turn up the political heat

Food banks have an important role to play in supporting the vulnerable.

YP Letters: Working at a food bank is an eye-opener

Drew Sullivan in action for Team GB at London 2012. They have since lost funding. (Picture: PA)

MPs accused of social discrimination in dismissal of basketball

Jared O'Mara

The Yorkshire Post says: Jared O'Mara is betraying faith of Sheffield voters

Former Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland

Greg Mulholland interview - From shock defeat to looking to the future

The devolution debate at Parliament

LIST IN FULL: So which MPs DID attend and speak for Yorkshire at the devolution ...

Jeremy Corbyn and deputy Labour leader Tom Watson

Labour rebels dismiss accusations of fuelling Brexit '˜division'

Is it right to blame Theresa May for the Grenfell tragedy?

YP Letters: Austerity was due to Labour profligacy

General Election 2017.
Labour's Alex Sobel wins the Leeds North West constituency from Liberal Democrats Greg Mulholland at Leeds Town Hall.
8th June 2017.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Labour gain in Leeds as student vote and '˜Corbyn effect' topples long serving L...