Public Services
Don’t forget the spending cuts
Assessments of the Budget's fairness have ignored the impact of spending cuts. Including tax and spend, the poorest households are hit the hardest.
Deprived areas to be hit hardest by cuts
This story is jointly written by Will Straw and Tom Phillips George Osborne is fond of saying that, “We’re all […]
The government must not sell-out over Student Loans book
George Osborne’s announcement of plans to sell off the Student Loans book can certainly sound somewhat ominous: a debt that was previously owed to the government could now instead be held by some clandestine private company.
The Budget warnings for the NHS
Conservatives increase in real terms funding for NHS will be far short of the increases under Labour and will struggle to keep pace with the pressures of medical technology and an ageing population.
RDAs: architects of their own demise
The poor benighted Regional Development Agencies took yet another blow to the solar plexus in Tuesday’s budget. Buried away on page 31 of the Budget Report was a commitment to see them “abolished.”
Online voting for disabled voters
Two-thirds of disabled voters faced access difficulties at polling stations on election day. The charity Scope is calling for online voting to address the problem.