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 […]
Monthly archives: November 2019
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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 […]