AstraZeneca and Brexit: the hardest pill to swallow
The urgency of an agreement on mutual recognition has intensified as the demands of developing vaccines to fight the pandemic grow
Read moreDetailsJane is an experienced campaigner and former university politics lecturer. She is a member of the Labour Party [Yorkshire and Humber] regional executive. She was head of the England team for Friends of the Earth and more recently coordinated the Brexit Civil Society Alliance. Jane is a committed devolutionist - she helped set up the campaign for the English regions and was director of Campaign for Yorkshire until 2004. Jane has three grown up children and lives in Sheffield with her husband, where she is involved with Sheffield’s Fairness Campaign.
The urgency of an agreement on mutual recognition has intensified as the demands of developing vaccines to fight the pandemic grow
Read moreDetailsThe Westminster bubble is in rude health – unlike large parts of the country – and largely ignorant of what...
Read moreDetailsThe top-down approach to decisions about lockdown taken by Boris Johnson and Robert Jenrick, has fuelled anger in the North
Read moreDetailsThe standoff raises the wider question of what devolution is for if you cannot have a degree of local autonomy
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Read moreDetailsWe will face a double-whammy economic hit if the effects of the pandemic are coupled with a disorderly exit without...
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Read moreDetailsIf ever there was a case for proper devolution then news today that an announcement of further lockdowns for the...
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Read moreDetailsIt's emerged that the number of those testing positive for Covid-19 in Yorkshire had risen sharply
Read moreDetailsIn what is a travesty for the rest of the region, the summit is for South Yorkshire and not the...
Read moreDetailsAs the test and trace fiasco unfolds there is more unwelcome news: we may be two years off a mass...
Read moreDetailsWith fewer than a 100 days until we exit the transition period and fully leave the EU, the twitter chatter...
Read moreDetailsThe political drama of voting on a bill that in reality is largely unnecessary provided yet more evidence that the...
Read moreDetailsThis morning, former Prime Minister David Cameron joined other ex-leaders of the country in expressing concern at the government’s plans...
Read moreDetailsAlarm bells rang yesterday when Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis confirmed that the government intended to break international...
Read moreDetailsSpare a thought this weekend for Hull, with the news that ministers will be using new powers to buy land...
Read moreDetailsDominic Cummings’ first day back saw him enter HQ in a suit; something of a first, which makes you wonder...
Read moreDetailsThis Friday sees the annual State of Sheffield event, an opportunity for Sheffield City Partnership to showcase its work of...
Read moreDetailsThe UK and the EU have now been in negotiations on their future relationship since 2 March 2020, which makes...
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Read moreDetailsIt may only be August, but as far as Covid-19 is concerned, it’s now all about autumn and winter
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Read moreDetailsThe latest round of EU trade talks taking place in London is expected to end on Thursday in a deadlock
Read moreDetailsIt may have been the last day of term for our MPs, but they went out with a bang
Read moreDetailsYorkshire looks set to get more devolution deals next year, according to Simon Clarke, minister for regional growth and local...
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