Conservative Party

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron during a meeting of the new-look Cabinet following a reshuffle on Monday. PIC: Kin Cheung/PA Wire

What is David Cameron doing back in Government? - Jayne Dowle

Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary as Rishi Sunak took action following her unauthorised article criticising the way pro-Palestinian protests had been policed.
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Suella Braverman sacked as Home Secretary as Rishi Sunak begins reshuffle

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX in-conversation at the conclusion of the second day of the AI Safety Summit. PIC: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

To his credit the PM has started taking the right steps on AI - David Blunkett

Former chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings leaves the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

The Government failed us during the pandemic - YP Letters

Home Secretary Suella Braverman with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he hosts a policing roundtable at 10 Downing Street, London. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

King's Speech 2023: What to expect from Rishi Sunak's policies

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the Parliamentary Labour Party welcomes newly elected MPs Alistair Strathern and Sarah Edwards to the Houses of Parliament. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Tax cuts are not the answer to this country’s problems - Yorkshire Post Letters

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer chairs a meeting of Labour Mayors during the party's conference in Liverpool. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer is yet to convince Yorkshire voters - Andrew Vine

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves says Labour will overhaul ‘antiquated planning system’

20 mph zone

Doncaster Conservatives criticise introducing 20mph limits across borough

Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty on stage at the end of his keynote speech during the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central convention complex.

Rishi Sunak gambles on scrapping HS2 to reset premiership

Manningham Mills dominates the skyline of Bradford, which is the tenth largest city economy in England. (Photo by Tony Johnson)

Anderson's puerile comments are an insult to everyone in Bradford: Greg Wright

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

Stock.... Leeds City Centre, Train Station, Railway Station
1st May 2019.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Train strikes set to cause week of misery for commuters

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outside 10 Downing Street, London. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Disingenuous to blame strikes for North's rail woes - The YP says

A picture taken on December 9, 2020 shows British and European flags fluttering outside the Berlaymont building, the European commission headquarters. PIC: FRANCOIS WALSCHAERTS/AFP via Getty Images

Why being ‘woke’ isn’t such a bad thing - Yorkshire Post Letters

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on the plans for net-zero commitments in the briefing room at 10 Downing Street. PIC: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has turned climate change into a wedge issue - Justine Greening

Liz Truss makes a statement prior to her formal resignation outside Number 10 in Downing Street on October 25, 2022.

Liz Truss to call for retirement age to be raised

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, with Angela Rayner (left) and Rachel Reeves, arriving with his shadow cabinet in central London for a meeting. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Labour needs to outline how it will deliver a better tomorrow - David Blunkett

Frank Hester speaking at the Yorkshire Data and Digital Conference. Picture: Steve Riding

Leading Leeds businessman donates £5m to the Conservative Party - this is why

A European Union flag in front of Big Ben, as Remain supporters demonstrate in Parliament Square, London, to show their support for the EU in the wake of Brexit. PIC: PA

Brexit delivered a clear message to EU nationals like me - Donatella Montrone

Lee Anderson doubled down on his comment by implying that the people he told to return to France were “not genuine asylum seekers”.

Minister backs calls for migrants to 'f* off back to France'
A Government minister has backed calls for migrants to “f* off back to France” in a move that critics have argued will “stoke division and hate” against asylum seekers.

Votes are counted at Selby Leisure Centre in Selby, North Yorkshire, in the Selby and Ainsty by-election. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The Tory Party no longer knows what it should stand for - Justine Greening

Newly elected Labour MP Keir Mather (centre), with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy Labour Party leader Angela Rayner at Selby football club, North Yorkshire. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Selby byelection result an indictment of the Government’s record - The YP says

Dave Chaplin offers his view

Self-employed will strike back at election unless 'tax bombs' end: Dave Chaplin

Keane Duncan

Conservatives pick candidate to stand in North Yorkshire mayor election

Boris Johnson makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, before resigning as Prime Minister on September 6, 2022. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire.

Sunak should boot Boris Johnson out of the Conservative Party - Andrew Vine

Striking junior doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

The NHS should not be stuck in the analogue age - Wes Streeting

Rishi Sunak's political leadership is a more detailed, polished, substance-over-style approach - but has the party around him done more damage than even he can repair? (Getty)

Repairing all of Boris's damage is Mission Impossible for Rishi - The YP says

Nigel Farage: It's the end of Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party.

Farage: “It’s the end of Boris in the Conservative Party”

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

'Addressing regional inequalities has been an ambition for the Conservative Party since Boris Johnson made it the centrepiece of the last General Election'. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill does not go far enough - Jack Shaw

An aerial view of the National Museum of the Royal Navy and HMS Trincomalee on January 30, 2023 in Hartlepool.

Hartlepool: Ben Houchen's battleground for Teesside's assets
Hartlepool is an odd place.Originally an Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement, later a coal port, and more recently a fishing town struggling to survive. It’s a geographical appendix to the historical County Durham body; a peninsula jutting out in the county’s lower regions that is now, apparently, surplus to requirements.

Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons on May 10. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

Local Elections should be a wake-up call for both major parties - The YP says

'During the pandemic, political and press attacks on benefit claimants – which had become increasingly strident over the previous decade - largely stopped'. PIC: PA

Demonisation of the poor shows how we are failing as a society - Stewart Lansley

Hull Guildhall

Hull council's local election results 2023 as Lib Dems increase majority

Liz Truss had a short-lived tenure as Prime Minister. PIC: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

Liz Truss shows why voters have lost faith in the Tories - YP Letters

Reform UK leader Richard Tice

Ad Feature Reform UK is 'party of common sense' says leader on Yorkshire votes rally

'Has the Conservative Party 2024 general election campaign started?' PIC: Phil Noble/PA Wire

How the Conservative Party has abandoned conservatism - Yorkshire Post Letters

Gary Neville mocks former PM Liz Truss on Twitter

Tory ministers will not be happy with the new ‘no plus-one’ rule for King Charles III coronation - Credit: Getty Images

Tory ministers in uproar after major king’s coronation rule change

Lord Lawson was also a journalist and the father of celebrity cook, Nigella Lawson (Picture: B Barrett/Express/Getty Images)

Former Conservative party politician Nigel Lawson dies aged 91

Tory MP Zac Goldsmith and wife Alice Rothschild have split after around a decade of marriage - Credit: Getty Images

Tory minister Zac Goldsmith ends decade-long marriage to wife Alice

'It’s unsurprising Boris Johnson probably won’t be supporting Rishi Sunak’s ‘Windsor Framework’ deal with the European Union'. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

The prospect of better UK-EU relations is good for our country - YP Letters

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

The refugee crisis isn’t an ‘industry’ - Yorkshire Post Letters

Nathan Gamester said: “We are excited to continue this [the Foundation’s] work through our Yorkshire regional office, and to further our mission to connect the backstreets of Britain with corridors of power."

The CSJ think-tank should focus on decent standards of housing - Jayne Dowle

Andy Brown is a Councillor on the new North Yorkshire Council and is a member of the Green Party. He represents Aire Valley.

North Yorkshire Council looks set to start off on the wrong foot - Andy Brown

Lee Anderson is the Conservative MP for Ashfield and the deputy chair of the Tory Party.

Lee Anderson is just what the Conservative Party needs - YP Letters

Michael Gove, centre, is Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Delaying economic regeneration projects betrays levelling up - The YP says

Lee Anderson is the new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.

Lee Anderson’s appointment as deputy chairman is a gamble - Jayne Dowle

Sir Andrew Cook has hit out at the Tory party. Picture: Scott Merrylees

Tory donor Sir Andrew Cook 'washes his hands' of party and hits out at Brexit

Masham Town Hall

Conservative Party's grip on North Yorkshire could be weakened by by-election

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 21: Lord William Hague makes a speech during the meeting of the United for Wildlife Taskforces at St James Palace on January 21, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

William Hague rules out returning as Tory chairman

Rod Stewart tells Sky News phone-in Tories should ‘give Labour a go’

Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner.

Firm previously owned by Tory donor awarded £4.5m contract to dispose of PPE

Ex-Tory MP Neil Parish resigned after being caught watching pornography in the House of Commons twice.

Disgraced porn-watching ex-MP may stand again at next general election

Mick Lynch, secretary-general of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) speaks during a rail strike rally. PIC: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Lack of action against the unions damages the Government - YP Letters

Andrew Bridgen has had the Conservative Party whip removed after having "crossed a line" in his criticism of the Covid-19 vaccine, Chief Whip Simon Hart said. Issue date: Wednesday January 11, 2023.

Tory MP has whip suspended after spreading covid misinformation

Sir Vince Cable is the former leader of the Liberal Democrats. PIC: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

‘Competitiveness’ objective for regulators is conterproductive - Sir Vince Cable

Members of the RMT stand on a picket line. PIC: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

It is time the Government stood up to the unions - Yorkshire Post Letters