Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's reshuffle focus on energy and tech is good for Yorkshire - The Yorkshire Post says

Grant Shapps became Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary; Kemi Badenoch will now lead the joint Department for Business and Trade; Lucy Frazer joins the Cabinet as Culture Secretary in a department which has been shorn of its responsibility for digital technology, but will instead focus on the creative arts and sport; and Michelle Donelan moves from culture to the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

In a region such as Yorkshire, with its tech expertise in the likes of Leeds, Hull and the Humber, and increasingly areas such as Barnsley, these skills and trades being treated as a priority will surely be well-received. There are a great many examples when it comes to technological research and development prowess right across the region – take Rotherham’s Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre as just one – and this newspaper has reported at numerous points on Yorkshire’s efforts to build its green energy sector.

Some will raise eyebrows over the scrapping of the so-called “vocational Oxbridge” in the North, though putting apprenticeships on a par with university degrees will make sense to many.

If Mr Sunak can set in motion a culture in which businesses around Yorkshire and the North are seen as a crucial part of the Government’s national agenda, that would undoubtedly be meaningful for this region.