MoD accused of ‘blowing millions’ on car hires while cutting Army size January 2, 2023 The Ministry of Defence has been accused of “blowing millions” of pounds on hire cars and taxis last year while cutting the size of the Army. A freedom of information (FoI) request by the PA news agency revealed the MoD spent £16.6m on hire cars for staff in the year to November, up from £12.9m [...]
Truss defends mini-budget as ‘the right plan’ in bruising local radio interviews September 29, 2022 Prime Minister Liz Truss said she was willing to take “controversial” steps to spur growth today as she refused to reverse her economic plans that have rocked financial markets this week.
Yvette Cooper made shadow home secretary in comprehensive Labour shadow cabinet reshuffle November 29, 2021 Yvette Cooper has returned to frontline Westminster politics, after being appointed shadow home secretary in Labour’s comprehensive shadow cabinet reshuffle today. Cooper, a former rising star under Gordon Brown and husband to Labour heavyweight Ed Balls, formerly served as shadow home secretary between 2011 and 2015. Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle also saw David Lammy promoted [...]
A summer of discontent is the unions’ fight for power in the modern workforce June 23, 2022 This week, London was awash with bikes and e-scooters as the biggest rail strikes in thirty years kicked off on Tuesday. Other unions were watching closely as they plan for their own industrial action. Some are calling it the summer of discontent, as a waterfall of job losses and long hours stir up a storm [...]
Sunak says Truss is ‘divorced from reality’ over cost of living crisis August 9, 2022 Rishi Sunak has launched a stunning attack on Liz Truss today, with his campaign team labelling the Tory leadership frontrunner as “divorced from reality”. A Sunak campaign spokesperson said Truss has refused “five times” to say if she will promise to hand out emergency payments to combat spiralling energy bills and that her plan to [...]
The Tories won’t redesign the NHS but they could get rid of the bottlenecks August 21, 2023 We have long since past the point where we will fundamentally change a free-at-point-of-care system, but the Conservatives can deal with the bottlenecks, writes Eliot Wilson.
Autumn Statement: 110 measures for growth and an election speech from Hunt November 22, 2023 Only seven weeks ago, Jeremy Hunt swore now was not the time for tax cuts. Now he is army Rishi Sunak with a manifesto of economic promises, writes Sascha O'Sullivan
Everything we know about the Spring Budget 2023 so far March 15, 2023 Tomorrow, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand on the steps of No11 Downing Street – holding the famous Budget 2023 red box. He’ll be the first Chancellor in the political turmoil of recent months to even hold on to the job long enough to reach this crucial point. The spring statement will lay out the government’s [...]
Tory MP Lee Anderson refuses to apologise for saying poor people who use food bank ‘cannot cook and budget’ May 12, 2022 A Conservative MP said he stands by his comments that people who use food banks do so because they “cannot cook properly” and “cannot budget”. Lee Anderson invited “everybody” on the opposition benches in the Commons to visit a food bank in his Nottinghamshire constituency where, when people come for a food parcel, they now [...]
‘This city becomes unlivable’ say angry Londoners hit by severe transport disruption due to another tube strike March 1, 2022 Londoners said the capital is “becoming unlivable” as strikes across the Tube network left them travelling for hours to get to work. Transport for London announced that all Underground lines would be suspended today as Tube workers stage industrial action against pay and working conditions. John Rayner, 28, a construction worker who was waiting for [...]