Dan Jarvis

Dan Jarvis, the former Mayor of South Yorkshire, said: “Franklin D. Roosevelt was right when he said, ‘we cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future’."

Over half of Yorkshire voters back new national service

Alan Milburn, Dan Jarvis MP, Oliver Coppard and more at the launch of the Pathways to Work Commission. A joint-venture between Barnsley Council and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority to help people get back into meaningful employment.

Barnsley announces independent commission to help people back to work

Labour leader Keir Starmer. Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images.

What is Keir Starmer offering to Yorkshire? It's time he told us - Jayne Dowle

Dan Jarvis. Picture: Chris Etchells

We need a Government food strategy worthy of its name - Dan Jarvis

A sign warning of a 'Sewage Outfall' is pictured at the Thames Water Long Reach water treatment facility on the banks of the Thames estuary in Dartford, east of London, on March 3, 2023. UK water company Thames Water, one of the UK's largest, has started releasing an interactive map of its waste water discharges into waterways after a beach pollution scandal last summer. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

Here's what is going wrong with our rotten water management system: Dan Jarvis

'The river Calder and its tributaries cut deep through Yorkshire’s history and landscape. But increasingly, they carry a tide of filth'.

Sewage dumping in our rivers is a systemic problem - Dan Jarvis

‘South Yorkshire isn’t a sewer’, former mayor’s horror at 26 sewage spills a day in region

‘South Yorkshire isn’t a sewer’: Former mayor Dan Jarvis

Former South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis urged Ministers to “get on with it” and launch the £100m HS2 study

Government urged to ‘get on with it’ and launch £100m HS2 study

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking during the CBI annual conference in 2021. PIC: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

What words of wisdom has Boris Johnson got to impart? - Jayne Dowle

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (right), former Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left) and Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, at Nexus, University of Leeds, in Yorkshire, to launch a report on constitutional change and political reform that would spread power, wealth and opportunity across the UK. Picture date: Monday December 5, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer rules out a One Yorkshire devolution deal

Colliery banners are carried through the city in Durham

MPs will investigate the "national scandal" of left-behind coalfield communities

Minister Huw Merriman officially launching the west London spoil conveyor at HS2's Old Oak Common site

New Bradford station is 'incredibly high priority', minister says

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

We should start talking seriously about immigration - Jayne Dowle

Doncaster Sheffield Airport may have to shut.

Airport's potential may be biggest missed chance of levelling-up - The YP says

Sergeant Ian McKay was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions in the Falklands.

Dan Jarvis pays tribute to heroic Yorkshire paratrooper killed in the Falklands

Former Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis pictured in November 2021

Former South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis on his frontbench ambitions

Dan Jarvis has recently stepped down as Mayor of South Yorkshire

Dragons' Den style funding contests hindering levelling up, Dan Jarvis warns

Oliver Coppard.

Oliver Coppard can be the strong voice South Yorkshire needs - Jayne Dowle

There are hopes that the Sheffield Supertram network could be expanded.

Oliver Coppard seeking 'ambitious' expansion plan for Sheffield's Supertram

Boris Johnson said the Conservatives had suffered a "tough night" in the local elections.

Tory majority slashed by voting shift in North Yorkshire heartlands

Outgoing Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis pictured in November 2021

Yorkshire mayor asks Chancellor to 'tackle North South divide' with funding
A Yorkshire mayor has called on the Chancellor to “finally tackle to scandalous North-South divide which impoverishes us all” and ensure more and “reverse the effective cut” in funding to northern regions.

General view of Parliament in Westminster

South Yorkshire MPs clash over bus funding bid in Westminster debate

Conservative Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford clashed with South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis over the bus funding bid, during a debate in Parliament

Tory MP says rejected £474m bus funding bid was 'not ambitious enough'

The next mayor of South Yorkshire has been urged to bring the region's buses under public control

Bring South Yorkshire's buses under public control as priority, new mayor urged

Local elections are taking place across Yorkshire on May 5

Local and mayoral elections May 2022: What is at stake in my area of Yorkshire?

Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, Acting Chair Councillor Louise Gittins Cheshire West and Chester and Martin Tugwell Chief Executive Transport for the North attend a meeting of the Transport for the North Board at the Queens Hotel in Leeds

Northern transport body risk becoming 'glorified' consultants after ‘power grab’

British Army veteran Taitusi Ratacaucau has been told he must pay the £36,299.82 medical bill by Wednesday, April 6

Dan Jarvis urges Government to help Afghanistan veteran hit with huge NHS bill

Insulate Britain members have been carrying out a campaign of civil disobedience.

‘Insulate Britain’ must define energy policy – The Yorkshire Post says

Rishi Sunak delivering his Spring Statement in Parliament.

Sunak fails to offer Yorkshire same guarantee as Cornwall on post-Brexit funding

Dame Sarah Storey has become the new active travel commissioner in Greater Manchester having recently done the same role in South Yorkshire.

Burnham snaps up Storey as active travel champion after South Yorkshire spell

The future of bus services in South Yorkshire is in the spotlight.

What bus franchising means for South Yorkshire – Dan Jarvis

Businessman Clive Watkinson is the Conservative party candidate for the South Yorkshire mayoral election.

Conservatives select Barnsley businessman as South Yorkshire mayoral candidate
Businessman Clive Watkinson has been selected as the Conservative candidate for the South Yorkshire mayoral election, the party has announced.

Dan Jarvis, Mayor of South Yorkshire. Picture: Chris Etchells

New research centre to lead net-zero drive in South Yorkshire

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove speaking in Parliament.

Gove urged to bring Treasury chequebook on South Yorkshire visit as £900m sought

The future of bus services is in the spotlight.

Why Yorkshire bus passengers deserve better – Andrew Vine

Sheffield has been selected for regeneration funding as part of the Government's levelling up plans.

Sheffield MP accuses Government of 'con trick' over regeneration funding

Mayors say white paper 'step in right direction' but more funds needed

Fishlake suffered devastating flooding in November 2019. Picture: Tom Maddick/SWNS

South Yorkshire's pioneering £400m flood protection plan revealed

Dan Jarvis speaking in a debate on Afghanistan in the House of Commons in 2021 (Parliament)

Nowzad evacuation 'cost lives' says Dan Jarvis

Left to right: Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, Mayor of North of Tyne Jamie Driscoll, Acting Chair Councillor Louise Gittins Cheshire West and Chester, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram and Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis, outside Leeds Railway Station. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA.

Upgrading homes can help level up the North - Yorkshire Post Letters

Lord McLoughlin is the new chairman of Transport for the North

Arrival of 'straight-talking Tory' welcomed at Transport for the North

The war of words over the Integrated Rail Plan continues to intensify.

Grant Shapps rebuke of mayors is misguided – The Yorkshire Post says

The Government's Integrated Rail Plan has led to an escalating war of words between Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and metro mayors.

Exclusive: Criticism of £96bn rail plan by mayors is ‘irrational’, says Shapps

Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis

Broken promises over levelling up threaten to undermine trust, IPPR North warns

Transport for the North has warned passengers could see "sustained closures and disruption through the next 10 to 15 years"

Passengers in the North warned rail works could cause 15 years of disruption

Dan Jarvis has warned pressure is growing on South Yorkshire's hospitals.

Covid hospital patient numbers in South Yorkshire double in a fortnight

Dan Jarvis has questioned the fees charged by Government for visa applications by foreign-born soldiers.

Government profiting from visa applications by military veterans, Jarvis warns

Tory peer Ros Altmann has called for a "national emergency plan" over soaring energy prices as peers prepare to debate the cost of living crisis in a debate instigated by former Yorkshire MP Anne McIntosh.

Energy crisis; why Ministers must act now – The Yorkshire Post says

Afghanistan withdrawal highlighted very worst political leadership, says Jarvis

Long Way Home autobiography by Dan Jarvis

Ad Feature BOOK REVIEW: A Long Way Home by Dan Jarvis

Labour's Dan Jarvis and Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who are both veterans, are calling for visa fees for foreign-born veterans with five years' service to be scrapped

MPs criticised for refusing to scrap visa fees for veterans born overseas

Tracy Brabin and Dan Jarvis are calling for cross-party support from Yorkshire MPs over a Labour motion to rethink rail plans for the region.

Tracy Brabin and Dan Jarvis urge Yorkshire's Tory MPs to back rail plan rethink

Front row left to right Mayor West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis, outside Leeds Railway Station, following a meeting of the Transport for the North Board at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, in November 2021

Government urged to 'move at pace' to outline levelling up agenda

The Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis officially opened Magtec’s new facility for the design, manufacture and installation of drive systems for electric and hybrid vehicles.

Why engineering firm Magtec is creating 50 new highly skilled jobs in Rotherham

Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central

Dan Jarvis calls on Government to scrap visa fees for foreign-born veterans

Simon Biltcliffe is the Yorkshire Party's candidate for South Yorkshire mayor.

Meet the 'Marxist-capitalist' businessman trying to become South Yorkshire Mayor

Sheffield city hall

Oolitical leaders react angrily to planned service cuts by First Bus

Tracy Brabin and Dan Jarvis, the mayors of West and South Yorkshire. Picture: Gary Longbottom

Yorkshire mayors issue Levelling Up White Paper warning to Boris Johnson

Mayor of South Yorkshire, Dan Jarvis speaks at the Labour Party conference in Brighton (PA)

Dan Jarvis tells Boris Johnson he 'fails to live up to promises" with rail plans

Barnsley Council leader Steve Houghton has issued a statement about Welcome to Yorkshire's future.

Council leaders 'keeping open mind' as review ordered into Welcome to Yorkshire'...