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Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves blames Government for councils going bankrupt

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at the World Climate Action Summit in Dubai, during the Cop28 summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Keir Starmer's praise of Margaret Thatcher is an unforced own goal: The YP says

Rattled: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was belittled at PMQs by Sir Keir Starmer for humiliating Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Elgin Marbles. Mr Sunak suggested everything Rishi Sunak touches turns to something unpleasant that Home Secretary James Cleverly is accused of blurting out at last week's PMQs. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

PMQs: Rishi Sunak humiliating Greece's Prime Minister was a petulant clanger tha...

Brightside and Hillsborough constituents are demonstrating against Sheffield MP Gill Furniss’ refusal to support a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel-Palestine conflict: Protest planned outside Yorkshire MP's office

Naz Shah who is the Labour MP for Bradford West

The senior Yorkshire Labour MP who broke ranks to call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the debate on the King's Speech in the House of Commons. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

Labour is a long way off winning over the electorate - Jayne Dowle

Sir Robert Goodwill MP with Rishi Sunak.

Watch: MP proclaims his constituency as the best - because it's in Yorkshire

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech on the situation in the Middle East at Chatham House in central London. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer comes across Prime Ministerial in speech - Bill Carmichael

The UK has called for a temporary "pause" in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, to allow humanitarian aid to reach those in Gaza and to allow the release of hostages. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK calls for 'pause' in Israel-Hamas conflict but rejects ceasefire

Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. PIC: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Leaders right to avoid point scoring over Israel-Gaza - The Yorkshire Post says

Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Strong leadership is required to bring the rail unions in line - Sarah Todd

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and Mark Drakeford (right) during a visit to Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales.

Sir Keir Starmer: Steel industry is “the future, not the past”

A fireworks display last year to celebrate bonfire night. PIC: Kelvin Stuttard

Why it’s time to take fireworks off the shelves now and forever - David Behrens

An artist impression handout issued by HS2 of a early visualisation of an HS2 train. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Cutting HS2 is putting short term political expediency - YP Letters

Should Sir Keir Starmer's Labour shy away from social care crisis, it will be guilty of a calamitous own goal in its challenge to win confidence

Who cares enough to stop the suffering? - The YP Says

Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, delivers his speech on the final day of the Labour Party conference. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The NHS is mired in masses of bureaucracy - David Behrens

Shadow cabinet members (left to right) Wes Streeting, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner, during Sir Keir Starmer's speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Relying on Tory abstentions won’t be enough for Labour - David Blunkett

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer being interviewed for Times Radio during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Men must be part of the solution on violence against women - Bill Carmichael

Former foreign secretary William Hague speaking at Chatham House in London about the EU referendum.

Lord Hague warns Rishi Sunak over rollback of Net Zero commitments

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

Generations of women who face violence have been failed - Yvette Cooper

A protester interrupts Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer before his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

'The glitter protest' highlights need to improve security for politicians'
The belief that “health and safety has gone mad" is one of the most damaging myths of our time.

A protester throws glitter over and disrupts Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer making his keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Serious questions need to be asked around safety of politicians - The YP says

Labour party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, delivers the leader's speech on the third day of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

Keir Starmer pitches to working class and Tory voters ahead of next election

Nigel Farage speaks with protesters outside Downing Street in central London, on the first day of the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to include the whole of London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

I'd rather have a political party led by Farage or Boris: Sarah Todd

Sir Keir Starmer giving his speech in Liverpool. Credit: Getty

Keir Starmer promises to build 1.5m houses in five years

Keir Starmer is interrupted by a heckler. Credit: Getty

Keir Starmer Labour conference speech crashed by protester

Shadow environment secretary, Steve Reed.

A better deal for farmers won't require a new EU referendum, Labour pledges

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves making her keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.

Labour to conduct review into failure of HS2 following cancellation

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

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer pledges to tackle NHS wait times with £1.5bn plan

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

Labour will not undo HS2 decision, Pat McFadden has confirmed to the Yorkshire Post

Labour will not undo HS2 decision, shadow minister confirms
Labour will not undo Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap HS2, as the party will work with what inherits at the next election, “not the one we wished we did” as top shadow cabinet minister has said.

Former prime minister Liz Truss leaves the Great British Growth Rally, a fringe event where she spoke alongside Dame Priti Patel, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ranil Jayawardena during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Under my watch Labour will never spend what we cannot afford - Rachel Reeves

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at a party rally in Rutherglen. PIC: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Labour is trying to destroy independent schools - Yorkshire Post Letters

Claire Douglas and Sir Keir Starmer.

Council leader urges Sir Keir Starmer to fund local authorities differently

'George Osborne’s rationale is that a section of HS2 south of Manchester would also form part of the HS3 line, and that building HS3 without it would add £15bn to its cost.' PIC: PA

Why Northern Powerhouse Rail should be the priority now - David Behrens

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer leaving Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, following their meeting to discuss how Labour would tackle Channel crossings. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

How identity cards could help curb illegal migration - Andrew Vine

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

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, during a visit to a school in Dagenham. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

What alternative is Sir Keir Starmer actually offering? - David Behrens

The EU and Union flags. PIC: PA

Key questions of Brexit are still being dodged by both parties - YP Letters

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Angela Rayner speaking at the TUC Congress at the ACC Liverpool. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

How the next Labour Government will strengthen employment rights - Angela Rayner

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer leaving Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, following their meeting to discuss how Labour would tackle Channel crossings. Picture date: Thursday September 14, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Move to counter-terror policing model to tackle people smugglers, Starmer urges

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper arriving at Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, to discuss how Labour would tackle Channel crossings. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Little hope of tackling small boats crisis without co-operation - The YP says

A taped off section inside Parks Primary School in Leicester, which has been affected by sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac). PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

Past Labour governments must also share blame for crumbling schools - YP Letters

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. PIC: PA

Labour needs to pledge a mass transit network in its manifesto - The YP says

The Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin during her visit to the MSI Reproductive Choices' Leeds clinic with Alison Lowe OBE, West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor fro Policng and Crime, speaking to member of staff Amanda at the clinic.
7 November 2022. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Tracy Brabin tells Labour a major transport project 'must be in your manifesto'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the first meeting of his new Shadow Cabinet last week. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Labour needs to offer detailed solutions for Yorkshire voters - Andrew Vine

A general view of Abbey Lane Primary School in Sheffield, which has been affected by sub-standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC). PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Crumbling schools highlight a series of failures - David Behrens

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer observes a classroom during a visit to Park View School in London, which has been significantly affected by the RAAC crisis. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Hard to predict what Labour will have to fix - Yorkshire Post Letters

Remedial work being carried out at a school which has been affected with sub standard Raac. Photo by Jacob King / PA Wire

The five Yorkshire schools which are affected by the RAAC concrete crisis

'It was Tory MPs who ousted Theresa May and killed her “softer Brexit”'. PIC: House of Commons/PA

Why it’s wrong to blame Labour for the failed Brexit deal - YP Letters

'Would the Labour party, under the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, be able to offer more funding to local authorities?' PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

What will Labour do to help cash-strapped councils - YP Letters

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pictured during a visit to Worthing in West Sussex. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

University also about young people finding their way in the world - Jayne Dowle

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer leafleting during a visit to Shefford in the constituency of Mid Bedfordshire, where the sitting MP is former culture secretary Nadine Dorries, ahead of a potential by-election. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

The Labour Party no longer represents the working class - GP Taylor

An information sign at Tower Hill in central London for the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Labour is wrong to back track on ULEZ scheme - Yorkshire Post Letters

Sir Keir Starmer’s party picked up its second seat of the eight constituencies in the county last month after winning the Selby by-election, but pollsters and Tory sources last night warned that a stagnant Tory voter base could see further gains.

North Yorkshire mayoral race set to be referendum on Tories' future in region

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's own seat of Richmond could be at risk of being taken by Labour, the polling suggested.

Tories face electoral wipe-out in Yorkshire, new polling suggests

A London bus passes an information sign for the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in London. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

We’re all beginning to find that it’s expensive being green - Andrew Vine

'Families and individuals, in Bradford and across the UK, deserve far better than what is currently on offer from our political class'. PIC: Tony Johnson

Bradford deserves betters when it comes to child poverty - YP Letters