The Yorkshire Party have unveiled plans for unprecedented investment in public and green transport. The party has pledged to fully fund Northern Powerhouse Rail, spending £39 billion to build a new railway line linking Hull, York, Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield with Newcastle, Liverpool and Manchester. Chris Whitwood, leader […]
The Yorkshire Party has unveiled its final candidate list for the 2019 General Election, with the party standing 28 candidates across Yorkshire. This marks significant growth for the party, with 14 Yorkshire Party candidates contesting the 2015 General Election and 21 fighting the 2017 contest. This year the Yorkshire Party […]
The Yorkshire Party has announced its policy response to the floods that have devastated communities across the North of England and is calling upon the government to take action. The party, which will be fielding a record number of candidates in Yorkshire in the upcoming general election, criticised the Government's failure […]
The Yorkshire Party has launched its general manifesto - titled Yorkshire Deserves Better - with a series of policy pledges on issues of Environment, Housing, Transport and Education. This comes soon after the Yorkshire Party became the only non-Parliamentary Party in the UK to beat ChangeUK in May’s EU elections, […]
The Yorkshire Party has today (Wednesday 6 November) announced four further general election candidates - taking the overall number now adopted to 22, beating the party’s previous best of 21 in the 2017 General Election. This comes soon after the Yorkshire Party became the only non-Parliamentary Party in the UK […]
The Yorkshire Party has announced its key pledges on transport and the environment ahead of the General Election on December 12th. The party, which achieved over 50000 votes in the European Elections and came ahead of Change UK in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency, will be fielding a […]
The Yorkshire Party has announced its first batch of candidates to fight the 2019 General Election. The party, which was the sixth most voted for party in England in the 2017 General Election and outpolled Change UK in Yorkshire in this year's European Elections, will be fielding candidates across the […]
Following the news that MPs have backed a General Election on Thursday December 12th 2019, the Yorkshire Party has announced that it will be fighting the upcoming General Election. Chris Whitwood, the Leader of the Yorkshire Party said "Yorkshire deserves better. From education to housing, Yorkshire is consistently let […]
The Yorkshire Party will hold its Autumn conference in Wakefield. The main event will be on Saturday October 12 at Wakefield College and will include speakers from UK organisations and pro-devolution movements from across Europe. The Party’s decision to hold its conference in Wakefield follows its best performance in the […]
Members are being urged to nominate candidates for the broad leadership of the Party in an election that will see eight Executive Committee posts filled. The poll will choose five Executive members to serve two-year terms until October 2021, and three to serve a year, to fill vacant positions until […]
Chris Whitwood has been elected as leader of the Yorkshire Party. Chris, who took on the leadership pending an election after Stewart Arnold gave up the post, received 84% of the vote – well ahead of rival Jack Bannan, the Party’s Communications Director. He will serve for two years and, […]
Boris Johnson has pledged to fund a new high-speed rail route between Leeds and Manchester. The BBC and other media reported that the Prime Minister used a speech in Manchester (July 27, 2019) to back the trans-Pennine link to “turbo-charge” the region’s economy. The 36-mile route would cut journey time […]
The new Minister who will decide the Government’s stance on regional devolution has received an early reminder that Yorkshire’s ambitions should be high up his agenda. Yorkshire Party Leader Chris Whitwood has welcomed the incoming Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick and urged him to back the One Yorkshire plan, which has […]
Any members who have not yet voted in the Party’s leadership election have just a few more days in which to register their choice. Voting closes at 23.59 on Sunday July 28. The two candidates are Chris Whitwood and Jack Bannan: Chris is the incumbent, having taken on the leadership, pending this […]
Pressure continues to mount in support of One Yorkshire devolution. A One Yorkshire Group set up by John Grogan, the Labour MP for Keighley and Ilkley, met in York and was attended by Yorkshire Party Councillor Mike Jordan. The session followed a regular meeting of Yorkshire council leaders to co-ordinate […]
Voting has opened in the contest to be the new Leader of the Yorkshire Party. Deputy Chairman Matt Clover, who is running the poll, has written to all members eligible to vote to explain the procedure and send their unique voting identification codes. “The voting period will run until 23.59 […]
The Party has appealed directly to members to help raise resources to help fight council seats. The move initiated by Deputy Leader Laura Walker comes after candidate Paul Walker came third in the East Riding of Yorkshire by-election for Bridlington North ward. Paul notched up a creditable 349 votes, behind […]
The Yorkshire Party has joined the call for Northern Rail to lose its franchise after another delay in scrapping antiquated Pacer trains in the region. Alex Sobel, the Leeds North West MP has argued that Northern Rail should be stripped of its rail franchise Pacers were due to be taken […]