Comments by Communities and Local Government Secretary, Sajid Javid leaves the door open for One Yorkshire but the Sheffield City Mayor election should be halted, says Stewart Arnold. Yesterday, Yorkshire MPs and local council leaders met Government ministers including the Communities and Local Government Secretary, Sajid Javid, to […]
Monthly archives: February 2018
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Mick Bower, the Yorkshire Party candidate in May election for a Sheffield City Region mayor, has tackled one of Labour’s possible candidates Dan Jarvis, over his “muddied” inconsistencies In his blog ‘Dan Jarvis and the Deathly Devolution Gaffes’, Mick Bower challenges the Barnsley MP: “Tell us what you really think […]
The Yorkshire Party is taking the campaign for One Yorkshire devolution to the responsible Government minister: Sajid Javid – the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Ahead of the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire set for next Tuesday, which Sajid Javid has […]
Picture: Robbie MacDonald With news emerging that the deposit for candidates wanting to fight the Sheffield City Mayor election is to be set at £5000, the Yorkshire Party has attacked the cost as being “absurd”. Stewart Arnold, Leader of the Yorkshire Party, said: “To set the deposit so high is […]
The Yorkshire Party has welcomed the report by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership Educating the North: driving ambition across the Powerhouse. However the party says education must be devolved to regions or no amount of warm words will improve attainment levels. Leader of the Yorkshire Party, Stewart Arnold said: “We are naturally […]