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Yorkshire Party Leader Chris Whitwood has criticised Sheffield City Region Mayor Dan Jarvis after it was revealed he was paying £700 a day for a spin doctor. The interim head of communications earned in a day almost double the average local weekly wage, said The Star newspaper in Sheffield, which […]

Our graph shows just how close Yorkshire is to electing the Yorkshire Party Leader Chris Whitwood to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It would be the Party’s first major success in a national poll, giving Yorkshire a voice in the decision-making process. According to the latest YouGov opinion poll in […]

The Yorkshire Party has mounted a huge operation to prepare election leaflets that are going to almost every home in Yorkshire; allowing us to get our message directly to about 3.5 million voters. As a participant in the European Elections, the Post Office is obliged to deliver the Party’s official […]

The national and regional media are helping to raise the Yorkshire Party’s profile, focusing interest on us after our vigorous and successful local elections campaign. Leader Chris Whitwood is in the middle of a hectic spell of radio and TV interviews as the Party wages another campaign to woo voters […]

By Wayne Chadburn, Yorkshire Party member Almost three years ago the UK held a referendum on its membership of the European Union.  By 52% to 48% the UK voted to leave the EU. At that point our country split and all of a sudden instead of politics and society being […]

Reports that the Government is ready to break the impasse on Yorkshire devolution have been dismissed by the Yorkshire Party. Yorkshire Post journalist Rob Parsons reported that Communities Secretary James Brokenshire agreed to progress the previously-deadlocked deal in the Sheffield City Region. The Government was reported as saying that the […]

The Yorkshire Party’s four new councillors on Selby Council are already making an impact in their district. Councillor Mike Jordan said: “We are getting stuck into jobs from the off.” Fellow councillor Dave Brook at Sherburn-in-Elmet has started a poll on his Facebook page seeking views of residents on local […]

Yorkshire Party Leader Chris Whitwood has called on Yorkshire men and women to start healing the divide caused by Brexit. In a major statement at the start of the European election campaign, Chris says the focus should be on the big issues that unite local people not the one that […]

Yorkshire Party Leader Chris Whitwood, says the Party is ready to contest the European Elections on May 23. The Prime Minister’s de facto deputy, David Liddington admitted that the Conservative Government had failed in its attempts to negotiate Britain’s departure from the European Union before it became necessary for the […]