Ed Balls

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Safety of women and girls needs to be at the top of the agenda - Jayne Dowle

Yvette Cooper MP

My Yorkshire: Yvette Cooper MP on exploring Yorkshire with husband Ed Balls

Jordan Banjo reveals he wont appear on Strictly

Jordan Banjo reveals why he would never appear on Strictly

Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez during the live show of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1. Photo credit: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire

Strictly's Helen Skelton on the personal importance of making it to Blackpool

Former Rangers and Scotland striker Ally McCoist on BT television punditry duty

Ally McCoist helps oncologist win £82k on The Wheel with this question

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to appear on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. PIC: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images

Matt Hancock won't last long on I'm A Celeb - David Behrens

Helen Skelton is to appear on the latest series of Strictly

Strictly to celebrate 100 years of the BBC as show returns to Blackpool

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was in West Yorkshire today, ahead of the local elections

Keir Starmer confident Labour can win back Wakefield at by-election

Former Chancellor Ed Balls was the MP for Morley & Outwood until he lost his seat in the 2015 General Election

Ed Balls criticises Homes for Ukraine scheme after his family applied

Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls

Ed Balls on life after Westminster

Sajid Javid is the Health and Social Care Secretary.

Sajid Javid’s discourtesy over social care deplorable – The Yorkshire Post says

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Social care funding is inadequate and pay must be better - Stephen Chandler

Ed Balls with Phyllis from the programme.Picture: BBC/ Stuart Wood.

Why I let cameras in to my care homes for Ed Balls documentary - Mike Padgham

Ed Balls, a former MP and Minister, features in a new fly-on-the-wall documentary at a Scarborough care home called Inside The Care Crisis with Ed Balls.

Inside the Care Crisis with Ed Balls shames Ministers – Tom Richmond

Undated BBC Handout Photo from Inside the Care Crisis with Ed Balls. Pictured: Ed Balls with Phyllis. (BBC)

Care workers at Yorkshire home felt they were being judged at height of pandemic

Mike Padgham (right) visits his 93-year-old mother Phyllis Padgham (centre) with Activities Assistant Charlotte Henderson (left) at St Cecilia's Nursing Home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

Social care’s debt to Mike Padgham and Ed Balls as TV series begins – The Yorksh...

Ed Balls will head to Scarborough in the documentary. (Pic: BBC)

Yorkshire care home to feature in 'warts and all' BBC documentary

Dame Judi Dench is set to delve into her family history

Dame Judi Dench to star in new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

Anita Rani, who is appearing at Ilkley Literature Festival in October. (Picture: Jay Brooks).

Ilkley Literature Festival highlights will include Anita Rani and Ed Balls

Ed Milibandon a recent visit to the Ilkley brewery, in Ilkley.

Yorkshire MP Ed Miliband reveals why turned down Strictly Come Dancing

Poet Keiron Higgins reading at the Great Get Together event at the Piece Hall, Halifax

Hundreds at Halifax Piece Hall for Great Get Together inspired by Jo Cox
Thousands of people across the country took part in events over the weekend to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Batley & Spen MP Jo Cox.

Former Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls is spending time at two care homes in Scarborough for a BBC documentary

Ed Balls visits Yorkshire care homes for BBC show on 'crisis in social care'

Mary Berry, uses vintage opera glasses to cast her eye on the detail of the celebrities’ ingredients, techniques and culinary skills from the mezzanine, a vantage point shared with judges Angela Hartnett and Chris Bavin. Picture: PA Photo/BBC/Keo Films.

Cookery show literally goes the distance to keep Mary Berry safe in Covid era

TV cook Dame Mary Berry says "shopping once a week is a great lesson in not wasting food".

Home cooking is winning lockdown recipe – The Yorkshire Post says

Morley and Outwood MP Andrea Jenkyns with her son, nicknamed "Brexit Clifford" because he was born on March 29 2017, the day Article 50 was triggered to leave the EU.

Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns 'cannot remember a day without pain' in 15 years

Who should take the credit for improvements in literacy?

Tom Richmond: Schools Minister could do with a lesson in humility and let Ed Bal...

School uniform

'Why school uniform is a pointless waste of time'

Andrea Jenkyns was re-elected in Morley and Outwood.

James Reed: Race to make sense of new political reality

Ed Miliband

Miliband rejects Tory manifesto comparison

Ed Balls and dance partner Katya Jones on the BBC1 show, Strictly Come Dancing.

Ed Balls vies with baby iguana for TV Bafta

Apprenticeship Award. Nick Garthwaite, Christeynes, with Michael Portillo.
Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards 2016. New Dock Hall. 4 November 2016. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Reward for the firms who nurture their staff

Ed Balls and Katya Jones during a photocall for the launch of Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour

Video: Ed Balls at 50, still looking good on the dancefloor
ED BALLS turns 50 this weekend, and the former Shadow Chancellor, currently free of Westminster's macinations, has no trouble counting friends on the fingers of both hands.

Ed Balls has been rehearsing his Gangnam Style routine.

Ed's on tour in search of votes

Winning ways: Terry Dunn, CEO of ESP Systex, the overall fastest growing business at the 2016 Ward Hadaway Yorkshire Fastest 50 Awards.

Rising stars will shine at Yorkshire Fastest 50 awards

Ed Balls was voted off Strictly Come Dancing at the weekend to the relief of some and displeasure of others.

YP Letters: Ed Balls got my vote for entertaining the nation on Strictly

GONE: JKenny Jackett in his fifth and final match in charege at Rotherham United on Satruday. Pictures: Bruce Rollinson.

Leon Wobschall: Who next for Rotherham United? Why Kenny Jackett felt he had to ...

Former Chancellor George Osborne

What we'll miss about George Osborne this Autumn Statement

Should Ed Balls and his dance partner Katya Jones still be on Strictly?

YP Letters: Ed's dancing means it's Strictly pantomime

Gangham Style for Balls

Gridlock in Leeds.

YP Letters: Out of touch over transport '“ Leeds Council taken to task

The York Minster bell ringers ring the bells to commemorate VE Day. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe

YP Letters: Disgraceful way to treat York Minster bellringers

Bradford's Jordy Hiwula looks to get away from Shrewsbury's Jack Grimmer.
(Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe)

Bradford City 2 Shrewsbury 0: Bantams waltzing towards the top as Law finally ge...

Sarah Todd is not a fan of Ed Balls on Strictly Come Dancing.

Sarah Todd: Strictly culture sounds like good idea from BBC2

Theresa May has the respect of the public, now her advisers are working on her likeability. Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Scones and shoes: Is this the reinvention of Theresa May

Ed Balls dances with partner Katya Jones on Saturday. Pic: BBC

Ed Balls: I was traumatised after messing up first Strictly dance

Ed Balls dances with partner Katya Jones on Saturday. Pic: BBC

Barn-storming ex-Leeds MP Ed Balls wins over Strictly doubters

Ed Balls, who appears on Strictly Come Dancing with partner Katya Jones, was left red-faced after accidentally asking for a fluffer during a photoshoot

How Ed Balls mistakenly asked for a porn star's assistant to adjust his wardrobe

Yvette Cooper MP.

Yvette Cooper at risk as Labour moots plan to oust '˜disloyal' MPs in boundary s...

Strictly 2016 contestants Melvin Odoom, Anastacia, Greg Rutherford, Laura Whitmore, Daisy Lowe, Ed Balls, Louise Redknapp, Danny Mac, Tameka Empson, Will Young, Ore Oduba, Claudia Fragapane, Judge Robert Rinder, Lesley Joseph and Naga Munchetty who are taking part in BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing 2016. Image: Jay Brooks/BBC/PA Wire

Video: Strictly stars dance down the red carpet at series launch

Former deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman described Jo Cox as a principled politician in a tribute to the murdered MP. Pic: PA.

Harriet Harman: Jo Cox was committed to progressive politics

Jeremy Corbyn lacks conviction on the EU.

YP Comment: Labour ignores its core voters at its peril

David Cameron on the election trail at Asda House, Leeds in May 2015

Whatever happened to Northern Powerhouse? Tories have let down Yorkshire say Lab...

Major Tim Peake will be test driving a British built rover from space this week.

Who will be making the headlines in the next seven days?

14 October 2015....... Archbishop Dr John Sentamu ad Justin Webb at the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business awards at The Queens Hotel in Leeds. Picture Tony Johnson

Yorkshire's most innovative commercial spaces to be celebrated

Yvette Cooper MP meeting refugees on the island of Lesbos.

YP Letters: We are too tolerant of the attitudes of immigrants in UK

The polls failed to predict the Conservatives' election win

Analysis: Polls are a flawed but important tool

Yvette Cooper

I won’t leave it to the boys, says Yvette Cooper, as Labour leadership race hots...

Bill Carmichael: Audacious Osborne leaves Labour bare

July 7: Next act in Greek tragedy

Ed Balls on General Election night

Ed Balls lands top role at Harvard