Pod’s Own Country: The Yorkshire Post’s Political Podcast

Yorkshire Post Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott chats with the General Secretary of the University and College Union, Jo Grady. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott chats with Barnsley East Labour MP Stephanie Peacock about the latest lockdown restrictions and flooding, while Political Editor Rob Parsons catches up with Bradford local democracy reporter Chris Young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent is joined by chief executive of the Northern Housing Consortium, Tracy Harrison, to talk about their new report which reveals the bleak housing conditions many in the North endured during the coronavirus lockdown. Plus BBC Yorkshire's political editor James Vincent joins for a chat about covering the pandemic, and what comes next. Learn more about you...

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Professor Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative and Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London. While Political Editor Rob Parsons chats with Kirklees local democracy report Tony Earnshaw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by  Britain's leading authority on political cartoons Dr Tim Benson and the YP's own - and only remaining regional - cartoonist Graeme Bandeira to talk about the impact of political cartoons on Westminster, and why they might be a dying art.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott chats with Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling about the new HQ the party is opening in Leeds, while Political Editor Rob Parsons speaks to Sheffield report Molly Williams to find out what is going on in the steel city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, with Conservative Party Conference approaching, The Yorkshire Post's Political Editor Rob Parsons speaks to the man who wrote Theresa May's speech as leader to conference in 2018. Keelan Carr tells us about what he was trying to achieve with the speech and the career path that led him from Wakefield to Downing Street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Tees Valley mayor Ben Houcen, while Political Editor Rob Parsons chats with David Spereall about the latest news from Wakefield.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott speaks to Yorkshire Universities executive director Peter O'Brien on the impact Covid-19 has had on the region's institutions, and how they can help in the pandemic recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sheffield City Council's director of public health Greg Fell joins The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott to talk about the role taking centre stage in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott speaks to Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby Robert Goodwill to catch up after the summer recess.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by three Waspi campaigners, Jan Egan, Dena Hunt, and Melanie Ndzinga, to speak about their campaign, while Politcal Editor Rob Parsons chats with Local Democracy Reporter for York, Chloe Laversuch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by the chief executive of the charity Local Trust, and Rother Valley Conservative MP Alex Stafford, to discuss a new cross-party group set up to tackle the issues faced by so-called left behind neighbourhoods. Editor: Dave ClayArtwork: Graeme BandeiraMusic: Joseph McDade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Yorkshire Post Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Northern Policy Foundation director Tom Lees, and Anna Round, senior research fellow at IPPR North, to discuss the coronavirus' impact on the North, and how to recover. While Political Editor Rob Parsons chats with Richard Beecham on what you should know about politics in Leeds. Editor: Dave ClayArtwork: Graeme BandeiraMusic: Joseph...

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Lib Dem peer Lord Scriven, a former leader of Sheffield City Council, to chat about the local response to coronavirus, and whether the devolution deals offered by Government are really all they are cracked up to be. Editor: Dave ClayArtwork: Graeme BandeiraMusic: Joseph McDade  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Leeds West MP and Labour frontbencher Rachel Reeves on her party's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and Keir Starmer's first 100 days as leader. Editor: Dave ClayArtwork: Graeme BandeiraMusic: Joseph McDade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful, and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Layla Moran to dicuss the future of her party.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable to talk about how to stimulate the economy after coronavirus - and how Labour's new leader could actually help the Lib Dems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by former Doncaster Council chief executive Jo Miller. Now heading up Hutt City Council in New Zealand, Ms Miller reflects on the response to coronavirus there compared to the UK.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott chats to Labour's shadow transport secretary and now Northern Powerhouse spokesman Jim McMahon on what "levelling up" means to him, and whether coronavirus threatens the opportunity to close the North/South divide. Editor: Dave ClayArtwork: Graeme BandeiraMusic: Joseph McDade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by nurse Joan Pons Laplana, a digital manager at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals who has returned to frontline duties during the pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Baroness Anne McIntosh of Pickering to find out how the House of Lords has coped with going online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent Geri Scott is joined by Ben Cooper from the Fabian Society to talk about how devolution could help Yorkshire recover from the coronavirus. Read Ben's full piece on devolution here: fabians.org.uk/a-divided-county/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chief Executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, Catherine Anderson, joins The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent this fortnight to discuss how, in the lockdown imposed by coronavirus, is highlighting the issue of loneliness - and what we can do to make it better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Yorkshire Post's Westminster Correspondent is joined by Hull West and Hessle MP and Shadow Education Minister Emma Hardy. This fortnight we tackle the attainment gap, apprenticeships, endometriosis and how coronavirus only exposes issues already present in schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices