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Pictured A view across the lush farmland, near Grassington, North Yorkshire. A Call for Evidence to explore the proposal for a Tenant Farming Commissioner and encourage more collaborative tenant-landlord and advisor relationships has been launched by the government.

Government seeking evidence over rights for tenant farmers

Oakworth Station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway among Yorkshire winners of Levelling Up money

Drax Power Station near Selby, North Yorkshire.

Government faces legal challenge over support for biomass projects such as Drax

Martin Callanan

Huge new carbon capture plant on Humberside 'essential' to net zero by 2050

Sajid Javid, the former health secretary, called for a royal commission into the NHS, describing it as “frozen in time”.

Ministers urged to take the politics out of the NHS

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the UK’s Court of Appeal. Credit: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire

Government to appeal court ruling on unlawful Rwanda policy

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak taking part in media interviews during the European Political Community (EPC) Summit at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca near Chisinau, Moldova. The semiannual summit was created last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of bringing together a broader set of European leaders beyond the 27 members of the European Union. Picture date: Thursday June 1, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Europe. Photo credit should read: Carl Court/PA Wire

Government goes to court to avoid handing over ministerial Covid messages

TEESSIDE, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 28: A general view along the River Tees as the official announcement was made today that Teesside will become a Freeport on October 28, 2021 in Teesside, England.

Investigation into Teesworks project launched by Government

Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

Rishi Sunak has declared his wife’s shares in a childcare agency set to benefit from budget amid investigation

Rishi Sunak declares wife’s shares in firm amid investigation

ABINGDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 30: Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, is shown robotics by an apprentice during a visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, on on March 30, 2023 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, for a discussion on energy security and net zero. (Photo by Jacob King - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Drax warned it will not get preferential treatment after project rejected

Renewable energy wind farms are a contested issue in Scotland

Ditch onshore wind ban to allow families money off bills, Government urged

A cake split in half, illustrating the concept of divorce. PIC: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos.

Time to modernise the law around divorce in England - Mark Heppinstall

It comes after Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove (pictured) were criticised by Andy Street, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, who said that the “begging culture” of competitive bidding for schemes such as the Levelling Up Fund must end.

Mayors set for departmental-style deals in spending review, Government reveals

Neil Warnock.

Warnock: EFL clubs need fairer share & regulator must take heed of Bury collapse

The Yorkshire Post has been told that there are "question marks" over Rishi Suank's commitment to devolving new fiscal powers to mayors

Mayors set for new enhanced powers in Manchester and West Midlands

New TUC general secretary Paul Nowak.

Government accused of sabotaging efforts to stop strikes by union boss

File photo dated 21/06/17 of Baroness Michelle Mone ahead of the State Opening of Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II, in the House of Lords. Tory peer Baroness Mone, who is at the centre of controversy over her alleged links to a firm awarded a PPE contract, will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect, the PA news agency understands. Issue date: Tuesday December 6, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS PPE. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Labour forces Government to reveal PPE contracts

Business rate valuations are being reassessed.

Business rates revaluation to hit Yorkshire firms harder than London's

The money was promised in April and will be used to support the region’s Bus Service Improvement Plan.

£70m to improve bus services and lower fares expected 'imminently'

A group of people, believed to be refugees, are rescued off the coast of Folkestone by a Border Force vessel

Government urged to stop putting asylum seeking children in hotels
The Government is being urged to stop housing thousands of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels.

The plans were initially announced by Michael Gove in January before his sacking earlier this year

Plans for 20 regeneration projects announced under Gove have been scrapped

Conservative whips initially stated the vote was being treated as a “confidence motion” in Liz Truss's Government

Liz Truss avoids major rebellion on fracking vote

Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London after he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer following the resignation of Kwasi Kwarteng. Picture date: Friday October 14, 2022.

'Off-payroll will continue to cause significant harm to the self-employed'

Liz Truss today sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Photo: Getty

Fracking site renamed ‘Liz Truss Career Memorial’ on Google Maps

File photo dated 24/02/14 of an instillation in the North Sea: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Government defends exploring new gasfields off Yorkshire

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng unveiling an anti-inflation budget plan at the House of Commons in London on September 23, 2022. - The UK's new government is unveiling multi-billion-pound measures aimed at supporting households and businesses hit by the highest inflation in decades. (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Jessica Taylor /UK Parliament" (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)

The Government has been accused of draining money out of Yorkshire.

An artist's impression of what the new White Rose Station might look like.

All the Yorkshire transport projects to be 'accelerated' in growth plan

Britain's Education Secretary Kit Malthouse arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London on September 7, 2022, ahead of a meeting of the Government's newly appointed Cabinet. - Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled her new top team as she formally took over from Boris Johnson, with no place for white men in any of the three senior-most cabinet posts for the first time ever. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Plans for new grammar schools are being drawn up, Education Secretary confirms

A pupil undertaking an exam. Picture by PA Archive/PA Images

Department for Education reveals plans for schools to close for Queen’s funeral

On the final day of The Great Yorkshire Show last week, the farming minister Victoria Prentis attended to launch officially a review into the pig sector in the hope that farmers, most of whom operate as small and independent businesses, can get a better deal. She is pictured with Charles Mills, show director.

Government intervenes to help struggling pig farmers get a better deal

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
The Government’s flagship ‘Levelling Up’ legislation is “not worth the paper it is written on” due to a clause allowing ministers to remove key targets at will, Labour has warned.

Major announcement made on NHS prescription charges in England

Imran Ahmad Khan became the MP for Wakefield at the 2019 General Election

Government urged to call Wakefield election so locals 'can get back their voice'

The All-Party Parliamentary Loan Charge & Taxpayer Fairness Group (APPG) has written to Lucy Frazer, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, outlining their concerns about the “draconian” loan charge and calling for an open meeting where officials can be questioned about the policy.

People facing loan charge have expressed suicidal thoughts, MPs tell Government

First News: A beary good idea!

The Cuadrilla fracking site at Preston New Road in Blackpool Lancashire.

Review commissioned into latest science on fracking as energy debate intensifies

The Majestic, the home of Channel 4 in Leeds city centre (Photo: James Hardisty)

Government to go ahead with Channel 4 sale, broadcaster announces

Concerns have been raised about the current lack of electric car charging points across the country

Government making 'slow progress' on net zero and levelling up goals

Government has overseen 'years of decline' in NHS targets, MPs say

Michael Gove's Levelling Up White Paper did not deliver for the rural economy, it has been claimed.

Levelling Up White Paper failed to deliver for countryside, claims CLA president

Prime Minister Boris Johnson disembarks a plane as he meets military personnel at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to thank them for their ongoing work facilitating military support to Ukraine (Photo: PA Wire/Ben Birchall)

Boris Johnson fast-tracks plans to tackle Russian ‘dirty money’ in UK

Holly Fox (right) receives a Moderna Omicron COVID-19 booster vaccine in a clinical study at St George's, University of London, (PA)

Government faces resistance as Boris Johnson announces 'Living with Covid' plan

The British Chambers of Commerce survey of more than 1,000 businesses has highlighted a host of issues with the UK’s trade deal with Europe.

Seven out of 10 said the TCA was not enabling their business to grow

A farmer slowly makes his way back and forth cutting the grass in a field near Marrick, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire.

Levelling up: Yorkshire's countryside should not be seen as 'rural museum'

An artist's impression of what the mass transit scheme in West Yorkshire could look like

Another £200m requested for long-awaited mass transit scheme in West Yorkshire

Leeds Bradford Airport

Government intervenes in Leeds Bradford Airport plans and orders inquiry

Parliamentarians have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor urging a ‘fair resolution’ to ‘the Loan Charge

Mis-selling victims face ruin over charge, MPs warn Chancellor - Greg Wright

Alun Francis

'Regional inequalities amplified by young people leaving to go to university'

The Social Mobility Commission's deputy chairman, Alun Francis, who has called for a tailored approach for devolution deals as part of the Government's levelling up agenda. (Photo: The Social Mobility Commission)

Calls for devolution deals to be tailored to help solve decades-long inequalitie...

Boris Johnson gives a victory speech at the 2019 election. New research has found wages in 'Red Wall' areas have fallen even further behind London and the South-East in the last two years.

Levelling up 'in doubt' as Yorkshire wage rises lag massively behind London

Front row left to right Mayor West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and Mayor of South Yorkshire Dan Jarvis, outside Leeds Railway Station, following a meeting of the Transport for the North Board at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, in November 2021

Government urged to 'move at pace' to outline levelling up agenda

Leeds Station.

Connect the northern regions to each other instead of London - Michael Edwards

The new treatment has officially been approved for use in the UK (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

What you need to know about new Covid-19 treatment sotrovimab - and how it works

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference after cases of the new Covid-19 variant were confirmed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2021 in London, England. UK authorities confirmed today that two cases of the new Omicron Covid-19 variant, which had prompted a flurry of travel bans affecting several countries in Southern Africa, were found in the UK. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Tighter rules on face masks and PCR tests for foreign travel announced

Left to right Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, Acting Chair Councillor Louise Gittins Cheshire West and Chester and Martin Tugwell Chief Executive Transport for the North attend a meeting of the Transport for the North Board at the Queens Hotel in Leeds (PA)

Ministers strip Transport for the North of powers to 'prevent levelling up'

The BioYorkshire initiative in York is aimed at helping drive a new era of bio-manufacturing and farming, as well as dramatically reducing carbon emissions.

Decade-long plan to ignite green energy revolution in Yorkshire backed by MP

Prime Minister Boris Johnson pictured on Downing Street last week (PA)

Government under fire from MPs on social care plans which could hit North harder

UK Government ‘not fully prepared’ for ‘wide-ranging impacts’ of Covid pandemic ...

Annual Covid booster jabs could be introduced - but no plans yet to vaccinate un...