
Mayor appoints West Yorkshire’s first Inclusivity Champion
Fatima Khan-Shah will become the West Yorkshire’s first ever Inclusivity Champion.
As thousands of last-minute cancellations continue to make life miserable for people in the North, the Government remains in a state of paralysis having just appointed its third Transport Secretary in seven weeks.
27 October 2022
As thousands of last-minute cancellations continue to make life miserable for people in the North, and cause serious damage to the economy, the Government remains in a state of paralysis having just appointed its third Transport Secretary in seven weeks.
If this level of disruption was being experienced in other parts of the country, we believe action would already have been taken to improve matters. We do not accept that passengers in the North should be treated in this way and just expected to put up with it. We won’t.
So today we are calling on the Prime Minister and his Transport Secretary Mark Harper to treat this emergency with the urgency it deserves. Only the Government can haul operators to the table to sort out this mess.
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire
Jamie Driscoll, Mayor of the North of Tyne
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region
Fatima Khan-Shah will become the West Yorkshire’s first ever Inclusivity Champion.
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After the release of the Casey Review, the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin has been in touch with Baroness Casey to discuss how to take forward their shared ambitions to address violence towards women and girls both at regional and national level.