Reform UK’s would-be Scottish leader linked to calls to introduce charges for NHS patients
Malcolm Offord edited a paper which urged a “dialogue” on introducing charges in the NHS and rolling back on free prescriptions in Scotland.
Reform UK support drops to nine-month low in new YouGov poll
“It is part of a broad downwards trend in Reform support”
Nadhim Zahawi is the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK
In old social media posts, Zahawi said he would be afraid to live in the UK if Farage was prime minister
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The problem with No More Page 3: Right on authoritarianism is still authoritarianism
As much as I dislike lots of the things the Sun newspaper does in the name of journalism, and as much as I generally like Caroline Lucas, something about Ms Lucas wearing a ‘No More Page 3’ t-shirt in the House of Commons yesterday irked me.
Lib Dem omnishambles over ‘politicisation’ of Royal Highland Show
Further questions must now be raised about the competence of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland as one of its leading members urged a Scottish minister not to politicise the Royal Highland Show despite one of the party’s own MEPs launching the ‘Rural Better Together’ campaign at the very same show.
Scottish independence poses risk to UK welfare system
Immediately separating the administration of the welfare system in the event of Scotland opting to become an independent state “would present serious risks to the continuity of payments to people in both Scotland and England”, according to a new report.
Simply making exams harder does not guarantee higher standards
To date school leaders have not been consulted over the development of the new GCSE syllabuses so it is highly premature to design new qualifications before this consultation has been finalised. It is now time for our legitimate voice to be listened to carefully and acted upon.
The employment figures can’t hide the fact that Britain needs a pay rise
Today’s employment figures include a couple of headlines the government will be grateful for and what seems like an improvement on the pay front. But when you look at the labour market from a slightly longer perspective, the picture is less brilliant.
A further unearned and disproportionate increase in the size of executive pay packets
The annual Manifest/MM&K executive director Total Remuneration survey was released this week, finding that take home pay for the average FTSE 100 CEO was up to £4.3 million in 2012, an increase of 10 per cent on the previous year.
The cruellest postcode lottery of all
Yesterday Public Health England published an interactive map showing the levels of variation in early death rates for local authorities across England (or as some have dubbed it, the Early Death Atlas).
Unemployment down 5,000 to 2.51 million
Unemployment decreased by 5,000 between February 2013 and April 2013 to 2.51 million, with the unemployment rate rising to 7.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
The real causes of family instability are economic
I believe that family instability is a problem. But it is not necessarily a consequence of the decline of the nuclear family. In modern Britain families come in all shapes and sizes and we should celebrate that.
The Mayor’s long-goodbye to London begins
Today the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, set out his ‘2020 Vision’ report for the capital. The report launch is the beginning of Boris Johnson’s long-goodbye to London as his attention increasingly turns elsewhere.