Keir Starmer has brought the health service back under the control of ministers by abolishing NHS England. The prime minister said the NHS should be overseen by politicians rather than an arms length body. Starmer’s move is one step towards […]
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The leader of the House of Lords has been urged to back calls for tighter restrictions on peers being paid to offer political advice after a Guardian investigation found one in 10 have held such roles. Gabe Winn, chief executive
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The Treasury needs to rethink public spending to focus on prevention of the UK’s health, crime and homelessness problems after cuts of up to 78% under the Tories, a report from Demos and the Health Foundation has found. It said
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Household incomes will stagnate or fall next year but the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will be hoping people feel better off as a result of improvements to public services, a leading thinktank has said. The Resolution Foundation calculated a new measure
The NHS is at risk of paralysis while it waits for Wes Streeting’s 10-year plan for reform and needs to be empowered to get on with change in the face of huge waiting times for care, a thinktank has said.
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Complaints about public services have soared by more than a third since 2016 with substantial jumps in relation to benefits, prisons, the NHS and higher education, according to a leading thinktank. Demos, a cross-party organisation, found that between 2015-16 and
The transport secretary has a conviction for fraud by misrepresentation after wrongly reporting her work mobile phone stolen in 2013, it has emerged. Louise Haigh was convicted by Camberwell Green magistrates and given a conditional discharge after pleading guilty to
The Liberal Democrats will attempt to hijack the government’s bill to ban Lords from inheriting their seats in parliament this week in an attempt to force a vote on an entirely elected upper chamber. The government’s hereditary peers bill, which
The Conservative party has been told to improve its data handling by the information watchdog after it released a “tax calculator” that also appeared to be collecting voter data. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wrote to the party telling it
Rachel Reeves’s first budget emphasised raising taxes to help the NHS, as the health service tries to cope with huge waiting lists and an ageing population. Funding the NHS was a top priority but people in other sectors – from
