Rachel Reeves

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

Watch: Members of the public react to the winter fuel cut

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

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 ...

Yorkshire MP Yvette Cooper has said she will be decide over Christmas whether to run for the leadership of the Labour party amid mounting from the region's ousted politicians directed at Jeremy Corbyn.

Rob Parsons

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!

AS the polls opened this morning, officials and EU referendum watchers were gearing up for an unprecedented turnout.

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Rachel Reeves.

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

Dewsbury’s Question Time line-up