Politics

Leeds have been urged to cancel their pre-season tour of Myanmar, branded 'morally corrupt" by shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan.

The Yorkshire Evening Post will be hosting a local election leaders’ debate at our offices in Whitehall Road this Friday (April 27) lunchtime and readers are invited to submit questions and apply to be part of the audience.

A lawn is set to be created at a hectic and “very important” gateway of Leeds city centre.

The Windrush scandal has exposed one of the “cruellest examples of unaccountable state power targeting the vulnerable”, a Yorkshire MP has claimed, as Ministers faced fresh calls to provide legal aid to victims.

Leeds United have been accused by an MP supporter of "assisting a brutal regime" after announcing a post-season tour of Myanmar, which is facing British and international condemnation over alleged ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people.

St. James’s Hospital is in my constituency. It’s a place that means a lot to me. I was born there.

I DO not envy the task faced by the modern policy-maker on national security. We face a fast-shifting scene in which there are few obvious anchorages for a country such as ours.

We’re sticking to our guns – that’s the message on Brexit from Yorkshire Evening Post readers.

A Yorkshire peer and Tory former Minister has accused the Government of having an “unhealthy obsession with numbers” as criticism continued to mount over its approach to immigration.

MPs are gearing up for a Brexit-defining fight over the EU customs union, amid reports that Brussels has ‘annihilated’ Britain’s plans for the Irish border, but Lib Dem Lord Newby is among the peers to fire the first shot . Arj Singh reports.

More than three-fifths of people in Harrogate think we would be better off economically in Europe - and a majority want to stick with the Single Market.

It’s local election time again, and with all 99 of Leeds’s council seats up for grabs on May 3, it’s all to play for in the battle to oversee the city’s destiny.

Leeds City Council has received a £7.3m tax rebate after overpaying on VAT for more than five years.

A new charter aiming to promote “a sense of entitlement and expectation” among young people about services educating them on career opportunities is to be adopted by Leeds City Council.

The Windrush generation are "part of us", Theresa May said as she apologised for their treatment, but few of them will have been impressed by a torrid Prime Minister's Questions.

Theresa May accused Jeremy Corbyn of allowing anti-Semitism to "run rife" in his party after the Labour leader claimed she led a "callous and incompetent" Government.

A Leeds man of the Windrush generation has told of his heartbreak at missing his daughter’s wedding due to an official failure to recognise him as British.

Residents will challenge civic and business leaders about mental health services, work opportunities and wage improvements tomorrow in the run up to the Leeds local election next month.

Residents will be able to challenge Leeds local election candidates and business leaders about mental health services, work opportunities and wage improvements.