Why mighty Yorkshire is another country in waiting | Simon Jenkins

The proud county of Yorkshire can go one better than 'minority' Cornwall. After years of London centralisation, it's payback time

The warm-up question for the BBC's Question Time panel in Leeds last week was pithy. If Cornwall, why not Yorkshire? If little Cornwall can now be afforded "European minority status", why not the mighty province of York?

Are 5.5 million Yorkshire men and women not as deserving of "minority status" within the United Kingdom as half a million Cornis...