Questions for the leaders

The first leaders’ debate takes place tonight. The party leaders should be asked tough questions on education, health, crime and immigration.

True Tory agenda of public service profit revealed

Right-wing think tanks have revealed the true Tory public services agenda with a coordinated set of policy recommendations to encourage the break up of the NHS into competing social insurers and to allow private companies to profit from state education.

Unaccounted £1bn cost of Tory school reforms

In George Osborne’s speech to Demos last week, he looked to Sweden to provide evidence for how a Conservative government could reform the education system and provide “more for less” while also delivering high standards. But the reforms would cost £1.2 billion and it’s not clear that the Swedish system is the panacea that the Conservative Party suggest.