If Labour wants to end PFI, the deals need to be carefully unpicked. Here’s how to do it
In some cases the cost of PFI borrowing has been more than four times the cost of government borrowing.
Public Services
Public sector workers ‘going without a daily meal’ because of Tory pay cap
The survey of 11,000 workers found that 17 per cent couldn’t afford to keep their homes warm, whilst 9 per were going without a regular daily meal.
The Tories are preparing to do a U-turn on seven years of public sector pay austerity
Downing Street has refused to deny its planning to end the 1 per cent freeze on public sector pay.
Government ‘concealing’ crisis in local mental health care by redefining what local means
Children and parents are being forced to travel hundreds of miles to access care which is classed as ‘local’ by new government definition.
Half of maternity wards had to shut last year due to “shameful” lack of staff or beds
One hospital said it had to turn away expectant mothers 30 times in 2016 because of “insufficient midwifery staffing for workload”
Network Rail is flogging itself off to private firms – we can’t let it happen
Their reforms will take us back twenty years to the disastrous Railtrack era where dodgy contractors put profit before safety, leading to several major rail crashes.
‘Look at our track record’: 5 ways the Tories are damaging mental health services
The health secretary’s ‘21,000 new NHS posts’ promise rings empty when you look at the overall state of staffing and funding in the NHS.
Five reasons why we need to abolish tuition fees
The marketisation of our universities must be halted before it’s too late
We need a full investigation into PFI hospitals and schools after Grenfell
The Grenfell tragedy exposed the use of deadly construction methods in for-profit buildings. New evidence shows hundreds more public buildings may be at risk
Councils face £5.8bn funding blackhole by 2020 warns Tory Peer
It’s impossible to cut local services further, the Local Government Association says