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MP’s notebook: Brexit

On 1 February 201931 January 2019 By Hilary Benn MP

A journalist asked me the other day how my constituents are feeling about Brexit. I replied that judging by my inbox they are pretty much split down the middle. On the one hand, people say ‘I just want out’ while on the other people plead ‘Can’t you stop Brexit?’ And

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MP’s notebook: Foodbanks, Brexit & The Managed Approach

On 29 November 2018 By Hilary Benn MP

Between April and September this year, the Trussell Trust – the UK’s largest emergency food provider – gave 658,048 food parcels to people in crisis. If someone had suggested, say, 40 years ago that so many of our fellow citizens would need to go up to a complete stranger and

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MP’s notebook: Struggling to get by

On 29 August 2018 By Hilary Benn MP

We are told that unemployment is at a 40 year low and yet demand for food banks in South Leeds has never been higher. How can this be? There are lots of reasons, so let’s look at each of them in turn. First, it’s the result of benefit cuts, sanctions

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South of the River – Rough Trade

On 21 April 2017 By Jeremy Morton

The Yorkshire Post reported this week that Burberry are “taking a moment to think through” their plans to build a new manufacturing base in Holbeck on the old Kays site. I say the Kays site, but it’s a whole bunch of sites, including perhaps most importantly Temple Works, the Grade

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Looking ahead to 2017

On 6 January 2017 By Hilary Benn MP

First of all, Happy New Year to one and all. I cannot pretend that 2016 was my favourite 12 months of all time so I am hoping that 2017 will represent a distinct improvement. Talking of which, best of luck to Leeds United and their manager Garry Monk for the

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South of the River – Remember Me

On 23 December 2016 By Jeremy Morton

Here we are at the last column of 2016. Which at least 48% of us don’t feel it’s been a great year. I blame myself. This time last year I was warning people: “Do you realise that by the end of 2016 we could be out of the EU and

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On The Buses: Beware of the mob

On 21 November 2016 By Frank Regan

I’ve been walking about modern South Leeds thinking about Ancient Rome. Why? Because if we ignore the lessons of the past we are condemned to repeat them. Classics scholars, public schoolboys, and anyone who’s seen Gladiator, will have some knowledge of the concept of the Roman mob. These weren’t the

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South of the River – Don’t leave me this way

On 1 July 2016 By Jeremy Morton

I mentioned two weeks ago the danger the Leave campaign risked in opening the Pandora’s Box of Nationalism. Unfortunately in the wake of their victory last Thursday I seem to be being proved right. There are hundreds of stories emerging up and down the country of hostility and threats which