Ed Miliband

Yvette Cooper has been appointed health and social care secretary

PM Andy Burnham names Yvette Cooper MP as new Health and Social Care Secretary

Call for council to reaffirm their opposition to fracking

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband wants to make home solar generation more accessible, in a bid to boost energy security for the UK

I tested plug-in solar as Ed Miliband backs easier UK rules

Age UK said the figures are ‘of tremendous concern’ and urged the Government to ‘make sure that it is prepared for next winter’.

Hundreds of elderly people living alone in Wakefield have no central heating

The oil company logged record post-tax profits of $27.7 billion (£23 billion) last year, more than double its 2021 earnings and outstripping the previous record of around $26 billion (£21.6 billion) in 2008.

BP profits could fuel every household in Wakefield for 57 years

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BP profits could fuel every household in Wakefield for 57 years

Offshore wind must more than quadruple by the end of the decade to reach the Government's target.

How much wind farms generate in Wakefield as Government backs away from farms in...

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for months' (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Christmas 'nightmare' prediction as Rishi Sunak warns shortages could last 'for ...

Polling has polling found that employees have been placed under pressure to come into offices when they could be working from home (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

1 in 5 still going into work unnecessarily due to pressure from bosses

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

Doncaster North Labour candidate Ed Miliband at the count for the December 2019 General Election, pictured. Picture: Marie Caley

Ed Miliband says Labour 'red wall' was crumbling long before 2019 election loss

MP Mary Creagh.

The race is on the win votes after election called

Teresa May.

Theresa May on verge of becoming our second woman PM as Leadsom quits Tory leade...

EU referendum: Have your say - it's the future of our country!

Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper officially launches Labour leadership campaign

Keith Poulson and Keith Hartshorne from the NUM

Election result could be ‘final nail in coffin’ for Kellingley Colliery
Miners at Kellingley Colliery fear the general election result could be the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for the pit.
Sam Cooper

Mary Creagh

Mary Creagh vs Yvette Cooper in the race to be leader of Labour party

Chuka Umunna

Chuka Umunna withdraws from Labour leadership race

UPDATED - Mary Creagh to stand in race to be leader of the Labour Party

MP Yvette Cooper, visits Carelton Community High (Pontefract) to talk to students about politics, as part of the Speakers for Schools series.
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Yvette Cooper to stand for leader of Labour party

Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper backed to be new Labour party leader

General election 2015: Miliband, Clegg and Farage step down as party leaders

The first ballot boxes are emptied

Exit poll points to victory for Conservatives

MPs Mary Creagh and Jon Trickett given top jobs in Labour’s shadow cabinet

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