Politicians

Michael Gove giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry (PA)

Highly infectious disease placed decision-makers in zugzwang

The coffin of Sir Bobby Charlton is carried by pallbearers out of Manchester Cathedral after the funeral service. PIC: Martin Rickett/PA Wire

Sir Bobby Charlton was authentic to the core - Daxa Patel

Residents view the aftermath as flood waters begin to recede in the village of Catcliffe after Storm Babet flooded homes, business and roads. PIC: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Money wasted on HS2 could have been used on flood defences - Jayne Dowle

Steve Foxley is chief executive at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.

Manufacturers will have to lead on the journey to net zero - Steve Foxley

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has overseen a dramatic 12 months which has seen households hit by rampant inflation and rising borrowing costs. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Jeremy Hunt must tackle labour market shortages in Autumn Statement: Beckie Hart

Baroness Ros Altmann is a British life peer and former pensions minister. PIC: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Cutting Winter Fuel Payments would be an insult to millions - Ros Altmann

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central convention complex. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Why it’s time to put all net zero policies on hold - GP Taylor

Liz Truss

Liz Truss defends her record as prime minister in think tank speech

Earlier this year, Harworth opened a new 50-acre country park at Cadley Park in Derbyshire, providing new recreational space and wildlife habitats at the 600-home development.

'Defective' planning system is leading to construction delays, says Harworth CEO

Mike Yarwood death: Impressionist and comedian dies aged 82

Recently Prime Minister Rishi Sunak even gave the greenlight to over a hundred new oil and gas licences. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Britain risks falling behind in the race to net zero - The Yorkshire Post says

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in Richmond. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Serious questions need to be asked over protests at the PM’s home - GP Taylor

Restyle app to make you look like doll ‘whitewashing’ people of colour

Greenpeace activists climb onto the roof of the Prime Minister's £2m manor house in Yorkshire this morning in protest at his backing for a major expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling amidst a summer of escalating climate impacts (Photo: Greenpeace)

Greenpeace protesters climb onto roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home

'Get hit by a car going at 20mph and you will almost certainly survive. The chances of not doing so drop down to only 2.5 per cent.'

North Yorkshire Council is wrong to reject 20mph zones - Andy Brown

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.

Ben Houchen chastised after claiming councillors were playing 'silly buggers'

DEFRA Sec. of State Therese Coffey meets Show Director Charles Mills.

The Great Yorkshire Show sets stage for political debate and announcements

'To top it off, just six months ago, Kwasi Kwarteng tanked the UK economy with his disastrous budget'. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Scrap 'spectre' of inheritance tax, Tory MPs urge

'At Leeds City College’s Quarry Hill campus, the arts are a vital part of what we do, with around 1,800 students pursuing creative subjects'. PIC: Simon Hulme

Politicians need to recognise the importance of arts next to STEM - Richard Lee

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to back 'builders not blockers'. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer is wrong on Green Belt development - Yorkshire Post Letters

New AI technology can be a really helpful tool to helping with your personal finances

How ChatGPT can help you with your finances
With AI and sites becoming increasingly popular, there are ways to use sites like ChatGPT to help with day to day life

Gordon Lightfoot performs onstage during 2018 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 29, 2018 in Indio, California.

Tributes paid to singer Gordon Lightfoot following death

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s stunning family home on sale for £2.75 million

Fiona Bruce on the set of Question Time. Question Time is returning to TV screens - days after the pay of its host Fiona Bruce was revealed. The flagship BBC One political show will be back Thursday with a slightly larger virtual audience than in the last series.

Full panel line-up for BBC Question Time in Bristol

Mourners will gather on Wednesday for the funeral of Boothroyd, the only woman so far to be elected speaker of the House of Commons. (Photo credit: Michael Stephens/PA Wire)

Mourners set to gather today for funeral of proud Yorkshirewoman Betty Boothroyd

Families across Britain have seen energy bills rise in recent months. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Focusing on energy security as a key priority - The YP says

RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

A sign warning of the rising cases of Coronavirus on January 5, 2021 in London, England. PIC: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Politicians lacked imaginative planning in the face of Covid - YP Letters

Martin Lewis is urging all mobile phone users to check their contracts (Photo: ITV)

Martin Lewis bags role as regular co-host on Good Morning Britain

Tree protests continue on Kenwood Road in the Nether Edge area of Sheffield in 2018. PIC: Scott Merrylees

We are a long way off reconciliation over Sheffield trees row - YP Letters

Match of the Day anchor Gary Lineker was asked by the BBC to step back from presenting their flagship football highlights program, Match of the Day, until they agree on a social media policy. Lineker, a former England international football player and previous winner of the prestigious Golden Boot award, tweeted his own views on the government’s Stop Small Boats policy provoking a row over the impartiality of freelance BBC TV presenters.

BBC licence payers, not Lineker, robbed of freedom of expression David Montgomery

Migrants housed at Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent. PIC: PA

Britain needs to get a grip on the migrant crisis - The YP says
It is clear that Britain needs to get a grip on the migrant crisis that is putting so many lives at risk while also overwhelming the existing system for processing those seeking asylum in the country.

Rishi Sunak talks to local business leaders during a visit to a Coca-Cola factory in Lisburn, Northern Ireland yesterday (Picture: Liam McBurney/WPA pool/Getty Images)

New figures show 54% of people in the UK would vote to remain in EU

King Charles will meet with Ursula von der Leyen, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Credit: Getty Images

King Charles criticised for decision to meet Ursula von der Leyen

Steve Freer and Val Wawrosz, former prison officers, set up Tempus Novo in 2014. PIC: James Hardisty.

Local communities have answer to tackling poverty - Nathan Gamester

Millions of consumers are struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis

How supermarkets can do more to help their customers - Rocio Concha of Which?

A sign for an Accident and Emergency department at an NHS hospital. PIC: PA

Politicians need to show courage and deliver a NHS 2.0 - Yorkshire Post Letters

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater.

Kim Leadbeater MP says she 'never' holds open surgeries after sister's murder

Colliery banners are carried through the city in Durham

MPs will investigate the "national scandal" of left-behind coalfield communities

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual conference. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

We should start talking seriously about immigration - Jayne Dowle

Labour Party to abolish the House of Lords if elected to UK government

Where is BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty? What happened to her & why was Charlie Stayt presenting alone?

Why did Naga Munchetty leave BBC Breakfast mid-show?

Billions had been invested via the cryptocurrency platform. (photo: Adobe)

FTX: 'Hundreds of millions missing' from collapsed collapsed cryptocurrency firm

Prime Minister Liz Truss has been criticised for her policies. PIC: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Politicians should be allowed to make mistakes - Neil McNicholas

Families shelter under their umbrellas during a outdoor screening of Paddington Bear at a community picnic in the park at Burghwallis near Doncaster to celebrate the Queen's Platanum Jubilee earlier this year. PIC: Tony Johnson

How Paddington Bear turned me into a reluctant royalist - GP Taylor

MPs crowding into the Commons to pay tributes to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the House of Commons

Parliament puts aside its differences to remember the Queen

George Osborne laid out his Northern Powerhouse plan eight years ago

George Osborne: Politicians need to be 'bolder and more ambitious' for the North

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones says rebelling against Boris Johnson in this week's confidence vote was the right decision.

First-time rebel Andrew Jones has no regrets over anti-Boris Johnson vote

Do you agree with this reader's views on crime and policing? Photo: David Cheskin/PA

Politicians should be ashamed that violent crime is the norm - YP Letters

Former Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis pictured in November 2021

Former South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis on his frontbench ambitions

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan walks through cannabis plants which are being legally cultivated at a licensed factory in Los Angeles. Picture: Stefan Rousseau.

Why cannabis possession laws should be repealed 100 years on - GP Taylor

Local elections take place on Thursday.

It's illogical to take it out on government in local elections - Bernard Ingham

Picture: Marisa Cashill.

Windfall tax on oil and gas will not help the poor - Bill Carmichael

This was Boris Johnson promoting the Levelling Up White Paper - but do people still trust the Prime Minister?

Why can’t Boris Johnson say ‘sorry’? – Yorkshire Post Letters

A waiter carries meals to some of the few customers dining at Cassia Sambuca restaurant in North Shields, North Tyneside, which would normally be packed with customers taking advantage of lunchtime specials

Omicron: Politicians criticise uncertainty over Christmas Covid restrictions

Boris Johnson during a Downing Street briefing on the Omicron variant.

Downing Street is not only Covid rule breaker – Yorkshire Post Letters

Louise Haigh MP. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire.

Rail vote gives region's MPs chance to show themselves - The YP says

File photo dated 26/02/15 of train timetables at Sheffield station. (PA)

Trains between Sheffield and Manchester Airport set to be drastically reduced

General view of a disused gas holder in central London. (PA/Dominic Lipinski)

Energy crisis will hit those in the north hardest, Kwasi Kwarteng admits

Azeem Rafiq playing for Yorkshire in 2017.

MPs 'very surprised' Yorkshire yet to publish institutional racism report