Mike Buckley: What Labour needs to do now
“Voters need to know why the government have made bad choices, and what Labour would do instead, not just that Labour would be a more trustworthy and competent administration, important though that is.”
Public Services
Government shelves free school meals for tens of thousands of children
Boris Johnson is facing another backlash following the ditching of the free school meal extension for up to one million pupils.
‘Housing is a human right, not a luxury’: Amnesty International delivers damning critique of government housing policy
‘The current housing system in England is simply not fit for purpose.’
Johnson makes high-wage economy U-turn as calls for £15 minimum wage grow
The PM’s comments for workers to accept pay cuts or UK faces 1970s-style ‘stagflation’, have been blasted as ‘nonsense.’
‘Too little, too late’: Frustration grows that Sunak’s measures were not introduced sooner
Following months of dithering and delay, the chancellor has finally acted to support families with the cost-of-living crisis. But for some, the measures are too little, too late.
Private healthcare advertising booms amid record NHS waiting lists
There have been hundreds of adverts for private medical companies published on Facebook so far in 2022 targeting users in the UK.
Manchester mayor urges for full nationalisation of railways
Andy Burnham says the privatisation of public transport has failed.
Queen’s Speech criticised for doing nothing to alleviate cost-of-living crisis
‘It is sad to see a government more obsessed with holding on to their own power and influence, rather than using that power to support the very many people who face what seem like unsurmountable obstacles, just to get by.’
Interest rates rise will exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis unions warn, amid calls for an emergency budget
‘Once again, the working people of this country will pay the price.’
A ‘hare-brained idea’: Johnson’s musing of Right to Buy denounced as ploy to win ‘red wall’ votes
“This is desperate stuff from a tired government, repackaging a plan from 2015.”