Lisa Nandy

'Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, said that building on the green belt should be a part of the UK’s answer to the housing crisis'. PIC: PA

We need to build on green belt to solve housing crisis - Bartek Staniszewski

North York Moors

National Park warns scrapping of environmental protections may impact birds

Labour will not pursue further devolution of tax which could see mayors reinvest money that is raised locally, Lisa Nandy said. PIC: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Fiscal devolution won’t work because England has been balkanised - YP Letters

The Prime Minister last night said that the Government will hit its target of one million homes between 2019 and the end of next year.

Government to focus housebuilding away from rural areas

York’s housing executive has supported reports that Labour will allow councils to force property owners to sell land to make way for major housing developments.

Yorkshire council may be able to force property owners to sell land

A general view along the River Tees

Does National Audit Office have powers to investigate Teesside freeport?

Rishi Sunak and Ben Houchen at the Teesworks site in Redcar, in July 2022

Teesside Freeport: Calls for investigation into major redevelopment

Lisa Nandy, Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, has urged the National Audit Office (NAO) to investigate the Teesside Freeport zone. PIC: PA

NAO must take a thorough look at Teesside Freeport zone - The YP says

Changes to the national planning policy framework will cost an extra £208 a year by 2030 if current trends continue, according to Labour analysis of industry data.

Scrapping housing targets will cost renters £200 a year, claims Labour

Angela Rayner, the party’s deputy leader, said the investigation into the use of GPCs revealed a “scandalous catalogue of waste”.

Ministers accused of presiding over 'lavish' waste of taxpayers money

Lisa Nandy said: “No longer will we write off the assets, talent and potential of most people in most parts of Britain.” PIC: PA

Transferring power out of Westminster will help economy grow - The YP says

Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy has written to Michael Gove demanding to know where the annual report on progress is.

Flawed approach to levelling up is undermining the policy - The YP says

Lisa Nandy, in a speech at the Convention of the North today, is due to outline Labour’s proposal to unleash the “power of all people in all parts of Britain” by handing Westminster controls to local communities.

Broken Britain 'must change or die', says Labour

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove (second left), with Morecambe MP David Morris, during a community visit to the Eden Project Morecambe site on Morecambe promenade. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Inquiry needed into murky Levelling Up 'Hunger Games': Jayne Dowle

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Lisa Nandy (L), Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities & Local Government meets resident Alice Conroy as she visits a housing development in Croxteth on September 24, 2022 in Liverpool, England. Lisa Nandy met the director of the housing association and tenants of new community housing development in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Labour to ditch Gove's levelling up targets in government

Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour will “smash up a century of centralisation” if it wins the next General Election

Labour vows to end ‘Hunger Games-style' competition for powers and funding

Consumer confidence rose slightly in October but remains at near historic lows as the UK grapples with the "new abnormal" of soaring energy, food and mortgage costs. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Families paying £500 more a month on mortgages, Labour Party claims

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 26: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Faith In Labour reception during the Labour Party Conference on September 26, 2022 in Liverpool, England The Labour Party hold their annual conference in Liverpool this year. Issues on the agenda are the cost of living crisis, including a call for a reinforced windfall tax, proportional representation and action on the climate crisis. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

One million jobs in Labour’s first 100 days in office, Sir Keir to pledge

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 27: Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy speaks during day three of the Labour Party conference on September 27, 2021 in Brighton, England. Labour return to Brighton for their in-person 2021 conference from Saturday 25 to Wednesday 29 September. This will be Keir Starmer's first conference as party Leader. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Investment zones have failed in the past, critics have claimed

Rachel Reeves has suggested Labour ministers shouldn't go to picket lines.

Rachel Reeves says solving rail strikes 'doesn't involve going on picket lines'

Tory promise of levelling up looks dead, but Labour can deliver - Lisa Nandy
As the Tory leadership race heats up and candidates vie for the mantle of Margaret Thatcher, the promise to level up seems to be all but dead.

CAMRA belives pubs are vital to their communities. Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images.

Lisa Nandy's proposal could be a lifeline for Yorkshire's pubs - Kevin Keaveny

File photo dated 27/09/21 of Lisa Nandy

'Crisis' looming for councils threatening 'vital services' Lisa Nandy to say

Lisa Nandy has questioned the legitimacy of the Government's levelling up legislation.

Levelling up law 'not worth paper it is written on' due to clause, warns Nandy

Lisa Nandy speaking in the House of Commons in January 2022

Lisa Nandy on levelling up: ‘It’s my town, it’s our future at stake’

Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy pictured at Labour Party Conference in 2021

Brain drain could be tackled with more 'high quality jobs' closer to home

Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy speaking at Labour Party Conference in 2021

Swathes of England worse off even with levelling up funding, say Labour

Michael Gove set out details of his Levelling Up White Paper on Wednesday.

Key levelling up targets 'highly unlikely' to be hit by 2030, Gove warned

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, pictured in October 2021 (PA)

Hull and East Yorkshire in line for new devolution deal under levelling up plans

Lisa Nandy, Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities & Local Government looks through a telescope to see a wind farm at the Orsted Visitor Centre at East Coast Hub on January 27, 2022 in Grimsby, United Kingdom. Nandy visited major local employers to hear how investment in green technology is providing jobs and apprenticeships for local people and met with business and community leaders working to secure Grimsby's future.

Here is Labour’s five-point levelling up plan – Lisa Nandy

Labour leader Keir Starmer with David Lammy, new Shadow Foreign Secretary, Yorkshire's Yvette Cooper, new Shadow Home Secretary, and Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Yorkshire 'central in Labour's thinking' after reshuffle, claims Keir Starmer

Yvette Cooper, pictured October 2021

Yorkshire MPs Yvette Cooper and Ed Miliband handed new jobs in Labour reshuffle
Yvette Cooper has been promoted back to Shadow Home Secretary as Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer reshuffled his top team.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy

Shadow Foreign Secretary slams pandemic response on Birstall visit

South Yorkshire's metro mayor Dan Jarvis today called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to work more closely with regional leaders as the country emerges from the pandemic. Pic: Chris Etchells

Boris Johnson says he prefers mayors who don't 'whinge' as MP urges 'reset'

Rachel Reeves (L) has taken over from Annaliese Dodds (R) as shadow chancellor (Getty Images)

Full list of changes to Labour's shadow cabinet following reshuffle

The government was criticised after Matt Hancock called out people leaving London

Critics react to Matt Hancock's comments on London to Leeds exodus and point fin...

Boris Johnson (photo: PA).

One coronavirus death recorded at Yorkshire hospital as Boris Johnson holds tele...

How did Keir Starmer get a knighthood - why the new Labour leader is technically...

Leeds MP Richard Burgon after being re-elected in December. Pic: Steve Riding

Leeds MP Richard Burgon sacked from shadow cabinet by Labour leader Keir Starmer

Rachel Reeves. Picture: Steve Riding.

Leeds MP Rachel Reeves back in shadow cabinet as Sir Keir Starmer picks team

The Sky News Labour leadership debate at Dewsbury Town Hall. Photo: Sky News

Labour leadership contenders go head to head at Dewsbury Town Hall

Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey are contestiing the Labour leadership.

Labour contenders still to make leadership case - The Yorkshire Post says

Soldiers from the Highlanders based at Catterick Garrison help build flood defences in Mytholmroyd inn the Calder Valley in preparation for Storm Dennis. Picture: Tony Johnson

Downing Street denies Boris Johnson's November flooding visit was to 'win votes'...

Shadow secretary for climate change and Wigan MP, Lisa Nandy

Shadow secretary for climate change slams Government's response to floods in Cal...

Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Keir Starmer will go head-to-head on Monday night (Getty Images)

Here's when the Labour leadership TV debate takes place on Channel 4

Leave supporters celebrate Britain's departure from the EU.

Brexit backers should mind their language towards Remainers – Yorkshire Post Let...

Lisa Nandy is standing for the Labour leadership.

How I will rebuild trust in Labour and lead party back to power – Lisa Nandy

Wigan MP and Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy. Photo: PA

EXCLUSIVE: National Union of Mineworkers backs Lisa Nandy for next Labour leader

A hustings event in Yorkshire would give those MPs standing to replace Jeremy Corbyn a chance to listen. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Labour Party must listen to region with a leadership hustings in Yorkshire - The...

Lisa Nandy MP. Photo: JPI Media

'Wrong approach' to review set up by Labour into election defeat, says Lisa Nand...

Yorkshire needs to take a countywide view to public transport.

The Yorkshire Post says: Put county first. Devolution lessons for Yorkshire '“ f...

Northern rail passengers have faced weeks of unprecedented delays and cancellations following the botched introduction of new timetables.

Leaked emails show Government was warned of rail chaos two years ago and describ...

Cartoonist Graeme Bandeira's portrayal of Chris Grayling.

The Yorkshire Post says: Emails at PMQs about North's '˜valueless' railways reve...

Acadmics and MPs have weighed in on grammar school policy

MPs and academics slam '˜peverse' grammar schools policy

Ballot boxes arrive for counting

A night to remember (wasn't that the name of the first Titanic movie?) View from...

Lisa Nandy: We must be honest about immigration

Bimlendra Jha, Chief Executive Officer of Tata Steel UK. Yui Mok/PA Wire

Yorkshire '˜offers future on steel'

Energy inquiry '˜ducked its responsibility' by failing to protect the majority o...

Which? is urging consumers to switch energy suppliers

Major energy firms defend their record on customer satisfaction

An anti-fracking poster on the garden gate of a house in Kirby Misperton. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe

Ministers to take decision over fracking