Diana Johnson

Cherry Burton railway station as it currently stands on the disused Beverley to York rail line. The East Riding Council has lent its support to reopening the line. From Wikimedia Commons, free to reuse under creative commons license.

Bid to rebuild direct rail between Beverley and York backed by local MP

Dame Diana Johnson

Labour MP says ‘Canary Wharf-scale’ investment is needed to transform the North

Yesterday a Home Office minister confirmed that the Government was looking at “additional measures” including transporting asylum seekers to Ascension Island, some 4,000 miles away.

Ministers revisit plans to send migrants to island in the South Atlantic

Three in a row: Kcom pole in front and two new MS3 poles behind. Location Eastgate, Hessle.

Rival network operators accused of blighting East Riding villages with poles

Dame Diana Johnson is the Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull North. PIC: Tony Johnson

Action to compensate infected blood victims must start now - Diana Johnson

The fountain will be switched back on July 8

Campaigners set to switch on Victorian fountain after raising £150,000

Dame Diana Johnson is the Labour MP for Hull North and is chair of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee. PIC: Tony Johnson.

Step up action on tackling violence against women - Diana Johnson

LR - Jason Speedy, chief operations officer, Carrie Young, marketing director, Shaun Edwards, chief executive officer, Dame Diana Johnson MP, Hull North and Lizzie Wilkinson, head of domestic product management.

100 jobs created at Hull-based Ideal Heating

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

Emma Hardy, the Labour Kingston upon Hull West MP, Dame Diana Johnson and Karl Turner have urged Mr Davie to “rethink” the proposed cuts

Hull MPs question why local radio is 'target' for BBC cuts

Councillor and MP react to hotel asylum seeker plans in East Yorkshire

Councillor and MP react to hotel asylum seeker plans in East Yorkshire

Home Secretary Priti Patel has been criticised for cancelling the appearance.

Priti Patel's cancellation of appearance with MPs branded 'wholly unacceptable'

The appointment has been shrouded in controversy after The Sunday Times alleged security services withdrew an assessment that granting the peerage posed a national security risk after the Prime Minister intervened.

Johnson met ex KGB officer Alexander Lebedev without officials, he admits

Emma Collins, 51, from Tadcaster, wants to open her home up to Tetiana Fishchuk (left) and her son Zakhar (right) who are currently living in temporary accommodation having lost their home during the conflict.

Family shares frustration as visa delays lead to refugees being stuck in Ukraine

Thwaite Hall in Cottingham

Arrival of asylum seekers to Yorkshire centre put on hold at the last minute

MPs have given their findings on spiking. Pic credit: Tim P. Whitby / Getty Images.

Serious conversations needed over spiking threat - The Yorkshire Post says

A protest in Hull after P&O Ferries sacked 800 seafarers.

P&O Ferries must lose licence over safety and staff scandal – The YP says

Protesters stand outside the P&O building at the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire, after P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices.

P&O Ferries must shape up or ship out of Hull – Dame Diana Johnson

The P&O ferry Pride of Hull in the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire, yesterday. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

P&O Ferries job losses huge blow for Hull amid chaos - The Yorkshire Post says

A man on board the P&O ferry Pride of Hull in the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire (PA)

Hull MPs call for immediate 'strong action' from Government over P&O Ferries

The murder of York-born Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer continues to undermine policing.

Why police reform begins at the very top – The Yorkshire Post says
TODAY’S damning report into the mishandling of complaints against the police reveals the extent to which victims of crime – and front line officers – are still being betrayed by policing leaders.

Patrick McLoughlin has been appointed as the chairman of Transport for the North for the next four years. Picture: Tony Johnson

McLoughlin aiming to win over doubters as 'honest broker' in fractious rail row

Diana Johnson has called for gay marriage blessings to be introduced by the Church of England.

Church should introduce gay marriage blessings 'sooner rather than later'

Burns Night celebrations. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard.

Burns Night, levelling up and Marks and Spencer's 70s fashion - the Week Ahead

Patrick McLoughlin is set to become the new chairman of Transport for the North next week

'Jobs for the boys' claim over top Tory becoming Transport for the North chair

Dame Diana Johnson raised the issue in Parliament.

Boris Johnson to be his own judge and jury over Partygate, Diana Johnson warns

Diana Johnson

Yorkshire MP to focus on violence against women in new parliamentary role

Diana Johnson. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Dame Diana Johnson deserving of the honour - The Yorkshire Post says

Hull North MP Dame Diana Johnson is standing to chair Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee.

Public interest demands strong select committees – The Yorkshire Post says

Grant Shapps is the Transport Secretary who delivered the Integrated Rail Plan.

North’s rail betrayal and deviousness of Ministers – Tom Richmond

Left to right 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 (PA)

Ministers strip Transport for the North of powers to 'prevent levelling up'

Dame Diana Johnson is Labour MP for Hull North.

Why have Tories turned against Yorkshire as HS2 speculation grows? – The Yorkshi...
DAME DIANA Johnson wasn’t just speaking for her constituents when she stood up in Parliament and asked: “What exactly do Conservative MPs have against Hull and the East Yorkshire area?”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester three days after taking office in July 2019.

Northern Powerhouse Rail; can Boris Johnson still be believed? – Tom Richmond

A Clap for Carers celebration outside Leeds General Infirmary during the Covid lockdown.

Why all NHS staff need their own care covenant – Dame Diana Johnson

Dame Diana Johnson

Protect health of NHS and social care staff in future pandemics, says MP

Hull North MP Dame Diana Johnson

Hull MP says people in city 'not trusted' by Ministers to have say on devolution

More than two dozen neighbourhoods across Yorkshire and the Humber which are disconnected from jobs and essential services due to poor public transport and low car ownership risk falling further behind the rest of the country if action is not taken, it is feared. Stock pic of buses

Yorkshire's 'left-behind' communities disconnected from jobs and key services

A worker tends to the furnace producing ferrotitanium during a visit to Tivac Alloys by UKIP leader Nigel Farage to see first hand how the global steel crisis is affecting small businesses on April 18, 2016. Pic by Getty Images.

Government 'should set a target for how much British steel will be used in HS2'

The state of Hull Station, and the funding of Transport of the North, has been the subject of an acrimonious Commons debate.

Transport Minister insults North with ‘playing games’ jibe – The Yorkshire Post ...

Dame Diana Johnson Picture:Tony Johnson

Row continues over Transport for the North's £4m core funding cut

The decision to put Rishi Sunak's Richmondshire constituency in a higher priority category for vital 'levelling up' funding than deprived areas of South Yorkshire has come in for renewed criticism from Labour MPs. Pic: PA

Labour MPs take aim at Levelling Up Fund as Sunak's constituency is prioritised

Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: PA

Prime Minister denies 40 per cent cut to Transport for the North's budget

Cities like Hull are counting the cost of the Covid pandemic and lockdown, says Dame Diana Johnson MP.

How Hull is being shortchanged by Government – Diana Johnson

Hull North MP Dame Diana Johnson

School closures 'storing up a timebomb of mental health issues for children'

Handout photo issued by UK Parliament of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Theresa May during the debate in the House of Commons on the EU (Future Relationship) Bill. Photo: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor

Boris Johnson's Brexit deal backed by MPs

Hull North MP Diana Johnson. Photo: PA

Men who pay for sex perpetuate 'brutal sex trafficking trade', Yorkshire MP says

Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Photo: PA

Bid to divert cash from unused accounts to help 'left behind' neighbourhoods

Prime Minister Boris Johnson appearing via video link from 10 Downing Street to make a statement to the House of Commons in London, setting out plans for a new three-tier system of controls for coronavirus, which will come into place once lockdown ends in England. Photo: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament

Rapid tests have not arrived in Hull two weeks after they were promised

Baroness Dido Harding, Executive Chair of NHS Test and Trace, in Westminster, London. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Dido Harding’s eight-month silence in the House of Lords must end: Tom Richmond

Joe Nihill, who died earlier this year. Photo: Nihill family

MP's bid for 'truly dangerous' suicide forums to be closed down

Hull North Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, pictured in the Commons before coronavirus restrictions. Photo: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor

Children are being exposed to violent online pornography 'at an alarming scale'

Hull North MP Diana Johnson.

Yorkshire MP calls again for the Army to mobilise in city for pandemic support

Prime Minister Boris Johnson making a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on the latest situation with the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: PA

PM says test and trace 'has nothing to do with the spread of coronavirus'

The Government's testing arrangements for Covid-19 are being called into question as delays increase.

Why were Hull key workers offered virus tests in Ireland? My questions for Matt ...

Parts of Wakefield are some of the areas of Yorkshire which are being 'left behind'

Yorkshire areas getting 'left behind' set to suffer more due to coronavirus

Hull Labour MPs Emma Hardy, Karl Turner, and Dame Diana Johnson.

Rescue for caravan manufacturing is 'test of the Northern Powerhouse', MPs claim

Stock photo of Hull. Photo: JPI Media

Hull to be hit by worst coronavirus economic impact and slowest recovery

A couple look at The Humber Bridge, Hull..(Tech Data Nikon D3s camera, 12-24mm lens, Exposure 400th sec at f5.6, iso 200).5th November 2018 ..Picture by Simon Hulme

Why the Humber's politics and economic future remain divided by the river

Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty, during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19). Photo: PA

'Absolutely critical' to adhere to new guidance after easing of lockdown

Hull MPs Karl Turner, Emma Hardy, and Dame Diana Johnson. Photo: JPI Media

Collapse of caravan manufacturing would see Hull left behind again, MPs warn