Rachel Reeves

County Hall, Wakefield.

Councillors to debate whether to take action over plans to cut benefits

The authority’s controlling group said it was calling for a “rethink” of proposed welfare reforms.

Wakefield's Labour councillors oppose government cuts to benefit system

(Photos: Getty Images/Alex Nelson)

Spring Statement: relief but unconvinced - I’m still reeling from cuts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to deliver her spring statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement: will it put more cash in your pocket?

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves 11, Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

8 takeaways from Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement - including welfare

Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual budget to Parliament in October 2024 (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Spring Statement 2025 - when it is and what Chancellor could announce

Rachel Reeves facing new issue as UK firms are pausing or paring back hiring plans thanks to poor economic outlook and rising payroll costs.

Top business stories in 2 minutes: High Street firms' £1bn taxes blow

Opposition councillors in Wakefield have put forward a motion calling for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to be sacked.

Wakefield opposition motion calls for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to be sacked

(Photo: JONATHAN BRADY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Economy heading to 'worst of all worlds' with decline expected in 2025

Chris Kitchen, the General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers

Around 7,000 former mineworkers across district receive first pension boost

A motion by Conservative councillors in Wakefield to call on the government to reverse plans to increase employer National Insurance contributions has been defeated.

Councillor says politics is “completely and utterly toxic” as NI motion defeated

Members of the Labour-run authority will vote on two proposals put forward by Conservative councillors at a meeting on November 27.

Call for Budget U-turn and scrapping of £3 bus fares

Petros Georgiou runs a popular fish and chip restaurant and takeaway, but said more could be done to bring people into Wakefield city centre and improve footfall for local businesses.

Small business owners discuss trading concerns following Budget

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey (C) attends the central bank's Monetary Policy Report press conference at the Bank of England on 7 November 2024 (Photo: Henry Nicholls - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Bank of England cuts interest rates again - what it means for you

Increase in number of UK businesses fleeing to Netherlands

Full-time workers in Wakefield are among the lowest earners in Britain, new figures show.

Full-time workers in Wakefield among the lowest paid in Britain
Full-time workers in Wakefield are among the lowest earners in Britain, new figures show.
Leanne Clarke

Nadeem Ahmed, leader of Wakefield Council's Conservative and Independent Group

Wakefield’s political leaders give their reaction to the Autumn Budget

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual budget to Parliament (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

How the Autumn Budget affects pensions - from the triple lock to tax

Here's what has been announced for education in Chancellor Rachel Reeves' first Budget

Budget day: What has been announced for schools and education?

Child plays with building blocks.

Watch: Measures for families announced in Rachel Reeves’ budget

Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual budget to Parliament in October 2024.

Watch: Potential tax rises and who could be worse off following budget

Labour councillors in Wakefield criticised their new government as they called for the “shameful” decision to cut winter fuel payments to be overturned.

Labour councillors call for “shameful” winter fuel cuts to be reversed

Man reacts to the government’s plans to make the winter fuel payment means tested.

Watch as members of the public react to the winter fuel cuts

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was given a guided tour of the Leeds Lung Health Check

Chancellor of the Exchequer visits the Leeds Lung Health Check

Rachel Reeves listens to Keir Starmer on the Labour general election campaign trail in May (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2024: when it is and what could be in it - as PM warns of pain

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Martin Lewis' alert as payments cut - pensioners can still get £1000s

Professor Green. Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images

Going Green: Positive change is already happening
Are the new government making good promises about how they will tackle climate change? While the new PM is settling into Number 10, Sir Keir and his cabinet have started a lot of initiatives on tackling climate change and improving the environment.
Angela Terry

Denise Jeffery said she planned to speak with Rachel Reeves about boosting local government finances if she becomes chancellor after the election on July 4.

Council leader to lobby new chancellor for more funding if Labour wins election

Labour has a plan that will move our country forward. Photo: Getty Images

Simon Lightwood MP: Labour has a plan that will move our country forward

Kwasi Kwarteng has scrapped the top rate of income tax (Photo: PA)

The results of Kwasi Kwarteng’s first Autumn Mini-Budget.

Households in Wakefield recorded their largest rise in electricity consumption in eight years in 2020, figures show, as Covid forced people to spend more time at home.

Wakefield homes record pandemic-fuelled rise in electricity use

Sajid Javid is not implementing Plan B measures for England (Photos: Getty)

Sajid Javid rules out Plan B but hints at mandatory jabs for NHS staff

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford MP Yvette Cooper

'I asked about maternity leave for Ministers and was told to ask the Queen'

The health secretary has blamed asymptomatic people getting tested for driving test shortages. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Asymptomatic people are putting a strain on the NHS by getting coronavirus tests...

It is believed that between 10 and 19 workers at the depot have tested positive (Photo: Shutterstock)

A Greggs factory has temporarily closed due to a coronavirus outbreak

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson speaks in the Commons. Photo: PA

Coronavirus: Schools to close indefinitely from Friday and evictions banned

Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn.

Four Yorkshire MPs re-elected to lead influential Commons select committees

MP Yvette Cooper at the election count in Wakefield. Pic: John Clifton

Yorkshire MP Yvette Cooper will decide over Christmas whether to run for Labour ...

Prime Minister Theresa May

Next Prime Minister must show real commitment to devolution, says senior Norther...

Leeds MP Rachel Reeves believes that despite the level of intimidation and harassment MPs receive, they must remain embedded in the community, in the way that her friend and colleague Jo Cox was.

'Jo Cox wouldn't want the response to her death to be MPs becoming inaccessible'...

West Yorkshire MPs Rachel Reeves, Mary Creagh and Andrea Jenkyns have all spoken out about the stream of harassment aimed at them and their colleagues.

West Yorkshire's women MPs fall victim to Brexit's toxic culture

The unveiling of a blue plaque for MP Alice Bacon at the Corn Exchange in Leeds. L-R Jane Taylor, Chair of Leeds Civic Trust , Judith Blake, Leader of Leeds City Council , Rachel Reeves MP and Cristina Lesto-Bandeira from the University of Leeds School of Politics.

Tribute is unveiled to Normanton born political pioneer Alice Bacon

The launch of the Baroness Bacon Beer in the House of Commons' Strangers Bar.

Raising a glass to Baroness Bacon: Beer goes on tap in Parliament to celebrate Y...

Recall Whirlpool tumble dryers, say MPs

Council chief executive Merran McRae.

County's first female MP to be celebrated

Alice Bacon

Blue plaque to be unveiled for Normanton-born MP Alice Bacon as part of Internat...

MP Alice Bacon

MP pens book about Normanton heroine, Alice Bacon

Flashback to the flooding in Kirkstall Road, Leeds, last December

Fury as flood envoys scrapped by Government

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

Rachel Reeves.

Jo Cox's death 'should not drive wedge between MPs and public'

Dewsbury’s Question Time line-up