Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon is calling on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to go further with the government's devolution plans by backing the creation of a Yorkshire Parliament.
Marking Yorkshire Day, the Liberal Democrat MP said Yorkshire should have its own parliament with powers over education, transport and health, arguing the county needs greater control over key public services.
His comments follow this week's announcement that mayors in England will receive a share of locally generated income tax and business rates, alongside greater powers over housing, transport, skills and employment support.
Mr Gordon welcomed the changes but said he believes Yorkshire's four separate mayoral areas leave the county divided when negotiating with central government.
He has previously proposed an amendment to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill that would have allowed the Secretary of State to establish regional governance bodies, including a Yorkshire Parliament, with powers over education and skills, transport, health and social care, and housing and planning.
Tom Gordon MP said:
"Happy Yorkshire Day. Now let's have a Yorkshire that can actually run itself.
"A divided Yorkshire is a weakened Yorkshire. We are carved into four mayoral areas, each negotiating separately with Whitehall, each fighting for a slightly bigger slice of a pot that London still controls. That is not devolution. That is a queue.
"Yorkshire has the population of Scotland and an economy the size of Wales. We have a cultural identity, a history and a geography stronger than most nations in Europe - and yet we have less say over our own schools, hospitals and railways than people in Cardiff or Edinburgh have over theirs."
He added:
"The Prime Minister has spent a decade arguing that power should flow out of Westminster. He is right. But if he means it, he cannot stop at handing mayors a bigger allowance.
"Yorkshire needs a parliament of its own, with control over education, transport and health - the three things that decide whether our young people can get to college, get to work, and live as long as people in the South East.
"My amendment would have opened that door. Westminster didn't even take it to a vote. I'll keep pressing until it does.
"Yorkshire folk have never needed telling what Yorkshire needs. We just need the power to do something about it."
Mr Gordon's proposed amendment was not adopted, and there are currently no government plans to establish a Yorkshire Parliament.
The government's devolution reforms instead expand the powers of England's existing regional mayors, with ministers saying the changes are designed to give more decisions and funding to local areas while retaining the current combined authority structure.
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