Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart Arnold has challenged a Yorkshire MP’s view of the proposed Brexit deal. Stewart tackled Conservative Alec Sherbrooke, in a letter to The Yorkshire Post. In it, he says: “Alec Sherbrooke MP is wrong – the proposed Brexit deal would have done nothing for Yorkshire (The Yorkshire […]
A £1.4 billion bail-out of London’s long-delayed Crossrail scheme has outraged the Yorkshire Party, which is demanding a fair share of the nation’s resources for the county. The £15bn Elizabeth Line had been due to open this month, now no date has been announced. The rescue plan – the third […]
Council cuts to youth services are linked to the rise in the number of homeless youngsters on Yorkshire’s streets in a new report. The report, by Foundation Yorkshire, a think-tank, suggests local authority spending cuts of almost £250, 000 are contributing factor to the rise in homelessness across the county. […]
Yorkshire Party Deputy Leader Chris Whitwood has welcomed a boost for Doncaster’s town centre shops with a free parking scheme over Christmas. Chris, who made increasing town centre footfall a key part of his by-election campaign in Town Ward this spring, said the Yorkshire Party had a detailed strategy to […]
Stewart Arnold Picture: Robbie MacDonald Leader Stewart Arnold has written to broadcasters to urge them to include the Yorkshire Party in any televised regional debate on Brexit. In letters to the BBC and ITV, Stewart says: “As you’ll know, after this year’s elections for the Sheffield City […]
Let’s give 16 and 17 year-olds the vote, Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart Arnold told sixth-formers at a York school. Stewart was speaking to 300 students at a “Question Time” session organised by Huntington School, York. The hour-long political debate was attended by the main parties and included Julian Sturdy, MP […]
Yorkshire’s political leaders have snubbed the Yorkshire Party’s attempt to build consensus support for its Pledge as part of the wider devolution campaign. Party Leader Stewart Arnold wrote to all the county’s 51 MPs, its six MEPs and council leaders whose authorities had not publicly backed One Yorkshire, to urge […]
Image: Hogweard The Yorkshire Party leadership has attacked the Brexit proposals as “a disaster” and has thrown the Party’s weight behind opposing Theresa May’s deal. The Party’s Executive Committee has issued a detailed statement, which asks: “Where is the certainty that Yorkshire’s businesses asked for?” Chris Whitwood, the Party’s […]
A study that showed that two parts of Yorkshire were in the poorest 10 regions of Northern Europe has been thrown into fresh relief with a new UN report on poverty in the UK. South Yorkshire was fifth worst off area and East Yorkshire the 10th, according to the non-political […]