Campaigners demand rethink on ‘failing’ test and trace scheme as ministers mull extension
Testing the limits of privatisation: is it time to hand the test and trace scheme to local health experts?
Public Services
There are big holes in Tory plans for an Amazon Tax
How this latest policy wheeze misses the big picture.
Why is Michael Gove attacking a public interest law group?
Lawyers for the Government have tried to undermine the ‘standing’ of the Good Law Project – who are tackling secrecy on PPE contracts.
The Education Secretary is spreading pointless myths about free speech on campus
Talking up the idea of a ‘free speech crisis’ is a favourite of Tories, but this latest ploy is pure hypocrisy.
Hundreds of health experts warn NHS is under threat through Tory trade plans
“Failure to exclude the NHS from trade deals may result in unavoidable and irreversible marketisation of the UK healthcare.”
North of England receives less than half the health research investment the South gets
IPPR calls for rapid action to spread wealth and prepare for future global pandemics.
In blaming the civil service for government failure, pundits are playing a dangerous game
Think tanks and the Tories are blaming the wrong people for the UK’s bungled Covid response, writes Prospect’s Garry Graham.
Campaigners hit out at huge gaps in Chancellor’s mini-budget
Where was the help for renters or the self-employed in Rishi Sunak’s statement?
Why did ministers hand a pest control company and sweet confectioner millions in PPE contracts?
We need the Government to come clean on the huge contracts it handed firms during the Covid crisis.
Tories u-turn on Covid test tax following outcry
It’s the latest in a string of policy reversals.