Ed Davey

Ed Miliband, Labour's Shadow Climate and Net Zero Secretary.

Energy companies and banks see jump in profits, figures show

A Liberal Democrats poster at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, as counting begins in the Somerton and Frome by-election, called following the resignation of David Warburton amid allegations of sexual harassment and cocaine use. Picture date: Thursday July 20, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS ByElections. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Lib Dems overturn large Tory majority to make inroads in former heartlands

File photo dated 22/01/22 of people out socialising in Temple Bar in Dublin city centre as people attending someone else's stag or hen do typically face paying £779 in the UK or £1,208 if they go abroad, a survey indicates. Picture: Damien Storan/PA Wire

Why I'm glad to be too old for ever-more costly stag dos: David Behrens

Free range hens roaming and foraging on farm meadow grass. PIC: Adobe

Farming needs greater Government support - Max Anderson

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer meets shoppers, staff and local residents during a visit to a Co-op store in Ripley, Derbyshire where he was campaigning ahead of the local council elections on May 4. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Parties wrongly hijacking local elections with national politics: Andrew Vine

Sir Rod Stewart during a visit to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex. Mr Stewart said he supports the striking NHS staff and wants to pay for more MRI scans across the country to help cut waiting lists but described it as "banging your head against a brick wall". In February, the singer-songwriter appeared at a mobile MRI scanning unit outside his local hospital Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex and paid for a day of scans.

Rod Stewart's decades of as tax exile shouldn't be forgotten: David Behrens

YORK, ENGLAND - MARCH 19: Sir Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats delivers his keynote speech during the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference at York Barbican on March 19, 2023 in York, England. The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference takes place over two days and this year will focus on building a critical mass of tactical voting among voters in so-called "blue wall" swing seats in the South of England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Sunak urged to tackle dental deserts in Yorkshire

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey, who visited local cafe Caspar on Newland Avenue, is calling for business energy support to be extended for at least another six months to ensure that businesses do not have to increase their prices or close their doors.

Sir Ed Davey calls for more energy support for Hull businesses

Sir Ed Davey speaks at the Liberal Democrat Conference in 2019

Lib Dems' Ed Davey hopeful of Yorkshire victories ahead of next election

Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker outside his home in London (Photo credit : Lucy North/PA Wire)

Gary Lineker set to return to Match of the Day after BBC apology

Jayne Dowle, pictured by Simon Hulme.

International Women's Day taken over by virtue-signalling men - Jayne Dowle

A hospital ward

Call for major incident to be declared over national NHS

Rural communities, like Muker in The Yorkshire Dales, are running out of patience warns CLA president Mark Tufnell who criticised the government for letting rural communities fail.

Lib Dem leader calls for designated rural minister because of DEFRA "neglect"

Liz Truss can claim up to £115,000 annually in funding as an ex-Prime Minister.

Anger mounts at Liz Truss entitled to £115,000 ex-PM funding

New Wakefield MP Simon Lightwood welcomed to Parliament

Boris Johnson. Picture: Getty.

The intelligent North places its faith in Boris Johnson - Bernard Ingham

Ed Davey wants better support for countryside communities.

Lib Dems demand support for communities hit by rocketing heating oil prices

Pic: Gary Longbottom.

Low carbon agriculture the way forward - Yorkshire Post Letters

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?

Sir Ed Davey MP, the Leader of the Liberal Democrat party, visiting York for a party conference and the National Railway Museum joined by York Council Liberal Democrat Leader Keith Aspden to express their support for York's Great British Rail HQ bid. Picture: James Hardisty

Ed Davey backs York's bid to become Great British Railways headquarters

Sir Ed Davey will be in York this weekend for the Liberal Democrats' spring conference

Lib Dems aiming to repeat North Shropshire success in Yorkshire, says Ed Davey
The Lib Dems are “coming back” in Yorkshire, party leader Sir Ed Davey has suggested, as he shared his hopes that seats across the region could turn yellow in the coming years.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey after giving his keynote address at the Lib Dem annual conference in September 2021 which was held virtually (PA)

Lib Dems call on Chancellor to cut VAT to 17.5% to tackle cost of living crisis

Boris Johnson. Picture: Getty.

Ending free Covid tests is like putting a tax on carers - Ed Davey

What should be done to counter the rise in energy bills? Lib dem leader Sir Ed Davey sets out his views.

Cut energy bills with this ‘Robin Hood’ tax on suppliers – Sir Ed Davey

New restrictions ‘unlikely’ to cancel Christmas despite Omicron surge

PIC: Steve Riding

Rules 'could be tightened after Christmas' as Omicron cases surge

Should a sewage tax be levied to clean up Britain's seas and rivers? Sir Ed Davey makes the case.

Why this sewage tax against water firms is now needed – Sir Ed Davey

Drivers queued for fuel at petrol stations across the country on Friday (Photo: Getty Images)

Temporary visa scheme being considered to tackle HGV driver shortage

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey giving his keynote address at One Canada Square in east London, to his his party's annual Lib Dem conference which is being held virtually this year (PA/Ian West)

Need for 'massive' schools catch up plan is 'urgent' says Lib Dem leader

Lib Dem leader and former Postal Affairs Minister Ed Davey says he welcomes a public inquiry into the subpostmasters scandal.

Ed Davey: 'I wish I'd asked more questions about the subpostmasters scandal'

Ed Davey has repeatedly raised issues affecting unpaid carers in Parliament.

Ed Davey on Lib Dem hopes of a Yorkshire revival: "The Tories are very beatable"

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has revealed his aims to win back seats in Yorkshire at the next election.

Liberal Democrats reveal Yorkshire target seats for next election
The Liberal Democrats are targeting Conservative-held Harrogate & Knaresbrough and Labour seat Sheffield Hallam as their top priorities for winning seats in Yorkshire at the next election.

Dan Jarvis MP. Picture: Chris Etchells.

Week Ahead: 'Levelling up', the Booker Prize shortlist and Lib Dem conference

Proof of a Covid-19 vaccination will be required to enter nightclubs later this month (Photo: Getty Images)

Vaccine passports will be required to enter nightclubs later this month

Matt Hancock has resigned from his role as Health Secretary (Photo: PA)

Matt Hancock resigns as Health Secretary after being caught kissing close aide

Ed Davey's Blue Wall photocall.

Chesham and Amersham was a victory for NIMBYs, not the Lib Dems - Mark Casci

How long can Sir Keir Starmer survive as Labour leader?

Keir Starmer is repeating history as Labour’s Iain Duncan Smith: Tom Richmond

Boris Johnson enters 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister moments after promising a "clear plan" to reform social care.

Stop the social care ‘lies’ Boris Johnson and tell us the truth – Tom Richmond

Lord Greaves. Photo: Lib Dems

Bradford-born 'Liberal legend' Lord Tony Greaves has died aged 78

Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey arriving at BBC Broadcasting House in central London for his appearance on the BBC1 current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show. Photo: PA

Ed Davey: 'I'm going to speak up, that's the job of a politician'

The government hopes to end all social restrictions on 21 June at the earliest (Photo: Getty Images)

Campaign launched for extra bank holiday to celebrate end of lockdown - and hono...

The Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has written to Jim Harra, the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary HM Revenue and Customs,

Numerous contractors using disguised remuneration schemes have worked for HMRC, ...

Boris Johnson's handling of Covid continues to be called into question.

Don’t let politicians control virus inquiry – Yorkshire Post Letters

Should there be an inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic?

Yorkshire’s 10,000 Covid deaths show why PM must not delay inquiry: Ed Davey

File photo dated 07/01/2021 of nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London. Photo: PA

PM refuses call for Covid inquiry while country is still 'working flat out'

MPs are due to have a debate on home learning today.

College leader’s broadband warning after spending £190k on laptops

Bradford-born Lib Dem peer Tony Greaves. Photo: Liberal Democrats

'We rebuilt the Lib Dems with grassroots campaigning before, we can do it again'

Saturday shoppers on Front Street in the Acomb suburb of York which is now in Tier 2 of coronavirus restrictions. Photo: PA

York councillors to vote on bid to trial Universal Basic Income

Coronavirus

Scientists claim circuit-breaker lockdown could save thousands of lives

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey in St Albans city centre in Hertfordshire where he met shop owners and vendors and discussed how they are coping with the latest Covid19 restrictions. Photo: PA

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey pledges to build on party's Yorkshire council success

Boris Johnson led the Vote Leave campaign with, amongst others, Priti Patel and Michael Gove.

Britons will campaign to get Brexit undone – Yorkshire Post Letters

Sir Ed Davey

Taxpayers feel under pressure to release equity in their home to settle loan cha...

Sir Ed Davey is the new leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Lib Dems risk oblivion under Sir Ed Davey if they don’t confront political past ...

The Loan Charge APPG still opposes the "retrospective" nature of the loan charge and believes that all taxpayers should have the right to access the legal process.

MPs call on Chancellor to offer 'reasonable' settlement opportunity over charge

Did a shortage of PPE compromise the country's Covid-19 response? An independent inquiry should find out, says Acting Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed Davey.

Why pandemic response now demands this independent inquiry – Sir Ed Davey

Graeme Bandeira's 'Be Kind' cartoon at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Don’t leave food security and farming at mercy of Brexit and virus – The Yorkshi...

Boris Johnson at PMQs. Photo: PA

Boris Johnson commits to independent inquiry into coronavirus response

Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Layla Moran. Photo: PA

'The Lib Dems cannot remain London-centric if we're going to fight back'

More than 220 MPs are members of the Loan Charge APPG

Why seven grieving families deserve inquiry into independence of loan charge rev...

The Treasury

Treasury officials accused of meddling into independent Loan Charge review