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A voter placing a ballot paper in the ballot box. PIC: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Select MPs from different occupations - YP Letters
From: Paul Brown, Bents Green Road, Sheffield.

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham, with Minister for the Cabinet Office Louise Haigh and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey, as he arrives and greets staff at No 10 North, located in Heron House, central Manchester. Picture: James Speakman/The Times/PA Wire

Whitehall officials to be moved into mayor's offices across Yorkshire

A person flicking through a dictionary.

Language is always shifting - David Blunkett

Capita has warned over an earnings hit of up to £40 million this year due to a raft of contract failures on the UK’s Civil Service pension scheme. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Capita reveals earnings hit of up to £40m

Si Geoffrey Boycott is famous for his Yorkshire dialect. Credit: Getty

People should 'not have to alter' Yorkshire accent to succeed in SW1

Maxine is an award winning garden designer

Local garden designer celebrated by TV gardening expert in 20th anniversary book

A street sign giving directions to Parliament Street and Whitehall in London. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Thousands of civil service jobs to be moved from London to Yorkshire

Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Planned abolition of NHS England is contradictory - YP Letters

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in London. PIC: Ben Whitley/PA Wire

How did we get to a welfare system that is unsustainable? - Daxa Patel

Gordon Black is unimpressed with Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves's handling of the economy

Labour is doing irreparable damage to the economy: Gordon Black CBE

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Civil service jobs you can apply for – and how to land your ideal role

Chancellor Rachel Reeves visits the Darlington Economic Campus. Picture by Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury.

Civil servants should be 'moved out of London' to address inequalities

Optima Health has announced that later this month it plans to demerge from its owner, Marlowe, and list on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange. Photo: Nicholas.T.Ansell/PA Wire

Optima Health set to demerge from owner and list on AIM

New flexible working laws are expected to result in more working from home.

I'm a homeworker - and I agree with 'couch potato nation' warnings: Jayne Dowle

Jeremy Quin is the Minister for the Cabinet Office. PIC: UK Parliament

Modern day civil servants have shown they can rise to challenges - Jeremy Quin

Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

The FDA has announced it will ballot members for strike action

Breaking Civil Service to vote on strike action over pay

April will see strike action affect everything from rail service to civil and public services.

Full list of strikes coming up in April 2023

The all-out strike in April will see over 130,000 civil and public sector workers walk out.

Over 130,000 civil and public servants to walk out on strike in April

'The thought of Britain being allowed to go to the dogs would supercharge Margaret Thatcher's efforts'. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How Margaret Thatcher would have tackled the crisis we face - Bernard Ingham

It has been reported civil servants are being asked to call Christmas parties 'festive celebrations'

Civil Service wrong to call for Christmas parties to be renamed: YP Letters
From: Paul Morley, Ribblesdale Estate, Long Preston, Skipton.
YP Letters

Liz Truss. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

Why did the Tories choose such inexperienced leader candidates? - Bernard Ingham

Civil servants have come to Leeds in recent years. Pic: Simon Hulme.

Civil service: More decision-makers needed outside London - The Yorkshire Post s...

Boris Johnson. Picture: Getty.

Civil Service and Downing Street staff numbers should be culled - Bernard Ingham

Business is there for the taking in Leeds and beyond.

Vital that Yorkshire business take available contracts - Edward Winterschladen

Mchael Gove is the Levelling Up Secretary as the search begins for a series of regional levelling up directors.

Why job spec for £144k levelling up directors is flawed – Jayne Dowle

What is Boris Johnson's future as Prime Minister following the 'partygate' report?

Why ‘partygate’ obsession is bad for Britain – Bernard Ingham

Boris Johnson's handling of the Covid-19 crisis continues to prompt much debate and discussion.

Covid parties justify Civil Service clearout – Yorkshire Post Letters

Teesside has become the country's first freeport since Brexit.

Freeports need turbo-charging in wake of Brexit – Jayne Adye

Dominic Cummings. Pic: Getty.

Here's what the Civil Service and NHS need - Bernard Ingham

MPs have returned to the House of Commons - why shouldn't civil servants return to their desks? Bernard Ingham poses the question.

Civil servants should now follow MPs back to work – Bernard Ingham

The Treasuery building in Whitehall (Pic: Getty)

Civil servants with ‘right accent’ and privileged backgrounds get top jobs
The route to the top of the Civil Service has been described as a “velvet drainpipe” with those from vastly under-represented disadvantaged backgrounds having to master “unwritten rules” in order to progress.
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Sheffield city council chief executive Kate Josephs. Pic: Scott Merrylees

I want Yorkshire's voice to be heard louder, says Sheffield's new council chief

Lord Bob Kerslake. Photo: JPI Media

Exclusive: 'Failing on levelling up agenda would damage public trust'

Lord Bob Kerslake. Photo: JPI Media

Downing Street rejects suggestion of creating dedicated 'levelling up' minister

What do you think about Esther McVey's recent comments on teachers? (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Esther McVey endangers free speech with her attack on teachers - YP Letters

Lord Kerslake. Photo: JPI Media

Levelling up plans do not have 'leadership, pace, and momentum' they need

Graeme Bandeira's latest depiction of Boris Johnson in the week that the new series of Great British Bake Off launched.

Boris Johnson can’t have ‘his cake and eat it’ over criticism – The Yorkshire Po...

Does the buck stop with Boris Johnson over the exams fiasco?

Exams: Buck stops with Boris Johnson if he’s to avoid John Major’s fate – Bill C...

The House of Commons has been reconfigured to take account of Covid-19.

We must not let virus ruin democracy – Timothy Kirkhope

Samples are tested for respiratory viruses during a post-Budget visit by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to the pathology labs at Leeds General Infirmary.

Yorkshire common sense and nous will help beat coronavirus – David Blunkett

Lord Kerslake was chief executive of Sheffield City Council and served as Head of the Home Civil Service between 2011 and 2014

Time is running out to tackle UK's deep-rooted inequalities, warns former head o...

What will Boris Johnson say on the steps of 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister?

What Prime Minister Boris Johnson should say on steps of 10 Downing Street – Ber...

Lord Bob Kerslake, pictured outside the Winter Gardens in Sheffield. Credit: Marie Caley NSST

Lord Kerslake: Tackling inequalities can heal Brexit tensions

Lord Kerslake has offered his encouragement to devolution campaigners.

The Yorkshire Post says: Why One Yorkshire campaigners should make the most of B...

Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament as Sir Bernard Ingham rebukes the political establishment.

Brexit mishandling proves that British and European politicians are all demented...

How can the Parliamentary deadlock voer Brexit be broken? Robert Armstrong, a former Cabinet Secretary, has made a rare political intervention.

Robert Armstrong: Worse than Suez –Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet secretary on how ...

A pro-Brexit leave the European Union supporter demonstrates with placards outside the Houses of Parliament.

YP Letters: Is the UK ultimately destined for a Norway-plus deal?

There is fresh controversy this week over public sector pensions.

James Roberts: We must defuse the timebomb of public pensions

As Prime Minster Theresa May tries to rescue her Brexit deal, it is crucial that a clear way forward is determined as soon as possible. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

The Yorkshire Post says: Impact of Brexit planning on Government departments is ...

Former Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service Sir Jeremy Heywood who has died from cancer aged 56, Downing Street has said.

Former Civil Service chief Sir Jeremy Heywood dies aged 56

Brexit continues to polarise opinion after the latest EU summit failed to achieve a breakthrough in negotiations between the Government and the EU.

YP Letters: UK does not need EU to rebuild itself

Doncaster D-Day veteran John Arscott.

Doncaster WW2 D-Day veteran dies weeks after celebrating 100th birthday

David Davis has resigned as Brexit Secretary.

John Redwood: My suspicion that Remain-supporting civil servants are dragging th...

Tessa Jowell

Dame Tessa Jowell, politician

Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary on Sunday night.

YP Letters: Amber Rudd carried can for the '˜not fit for purpose' Home Office

Greg Clark is the Business Secretary.

The Yorkshire Post says: Brexit failings of Civil Service. Business department n...

Jeremy Corbyn

Opinion: "I am ashamed of what the Labour party has become under Marxist Jeremy ...

Kerslake: North must not give up on devolution ambition

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YP Comment: The Lords take their turn

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