Keir Starmer Is Channeling His Inner Margaret Thatcher
On Thursday in Hull, the PM gave a speech that echoed the rhetoric of every Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. The “state has become bigger, but weaker,” he complained; Britain needs ...
Keir Starmer will be hoping long-term gain is worth the short-term pain with NHS reorganisation
When it was announced that Sir Keir Starmer was to make a speech about civil service reform in Hull, I was slightly surprised ...
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Why Keir Starmer's decision to scrap massive quango should shame SNP into action
Scotland, a nation of quangos, needs to learn how to be more efficient in delivering public services ...
Analysis: What do Starmer’s reforms actually mean – and can they work?
Sir Keir Starmer has announced his plans to make the British state more “innovative and effective”. Can his reform agenda ...
Labour's benefit crackdown 'to cut disability payments for 1m people'
The huge changes to the welfare system, due to be announced next week, will see only the most severely disabled people ...
At last things are looking up for Starmer after his spectacular turn Right. But he can't stop there - time to tell Little Ed and Big Ange their Lefty game is up: ANDREW NEIL
Starmer is about to find out you can't be half pregnant. That government has to be joined up to succeed. Time to tell Little ...
Australia is trying to pretend the world hasn’t changed
Trump’s revolution has upended global politics. Neither Labor nor the Coalition has seriously confronted the difficult policy ...
Keir Starmer Will Face Down Labour Rebels To Slash Billions From Welfare Budget
Louise Murphy, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think-tank, urged ministers to “proceed cautiously rather than ...
Keir Starmer promises more ‘democratic control’ of the NHS – how do other European countries do it?
We don’t know, but we know lots of smart people. They’re standing by to explain whatever happens. We will help them share the ...
Abolishing NHS England could shift power from the centre – but health service overhauls rarely go well
The NHS is the largest public sector organisation in England, seeing 1.7 million people each day including in patients’ own ...
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Keir Starmer has abolished NHS England, not the NHS itself
Addressing reporters on 12 March, Sir Keir Starmer announced that NHS England will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy”. Later, ...