NHS plans are Cameron’s failure as much as Lansley’s
Dominic Browne looks at David Cameron’s denials on the NHS, selective quoting, and his Freemason enthusiast political ally.
John Healey
Why won’t Cameron come clean on NHS cuts?
David Cameron’s PMQ’s comments on the NHS are typical of the government’s level of denial over the NHS cuts and falling standards, reports Dominic Browne.
Concerns grow that NHS is “slipping backwards”
A new report from respected independent think tank The King’s Fund on the state of the NHS under the Tory-led government makes grim reading.
It’s Europe that will kill the Tory NHS reforms
Andrew Georgiou looks at the Tory NHS and welfare reforms and whether they will open up the service to European Union competition law.
Open letter to Lib Dem members from John Healey
Following today’s decision by the Liberal Democrats to push for a re-write of the Government’s NHS bill, John Healey writes an open letter to Lib Dem members exclusively on Left Foot Forward.
Healey seeks clarity on Lansley’s plans to turn NHS into a “genuine” market
Shadow health secretary John Healey MP to the Secretary of State Andrew Lansley MP seeking clarity on the coalition’s plans to turn the NHS into a “genuine” market with price competition.
PMQs: Prime Minister’s (selective) Quotations
David Cameron endured one of his worst Prime Minister’s Questions today, under fire over the ‘Big Society’ and Sure Start, and now shown to have misquoted John Healey.
Healey lambasts ‘New Homes Bonus’ scheme
In a speech today to the Labour Party conference, John Healey set out a detailed critique of the Coalition’s ‘New Homes Bonus’ scheme. He argued it will “blow out of the water” George Osbourne’s promise of a council tax freeze in many areas.
John Healey’s fight for the “squeezed middle”
Next Wednesday, nominations will open for Labour’s shadow cabinet election. With 14 male members of the current shadow cabinet chasing a maximum of 13 places, one of Labour’s big guns can expect to be disappointed. One man hoping for antest
Coalition home bonus scheme is a con
The government’s ‘New Homes Bonus’ scheme, which will match the council tax raised on each new house for six years, was slammed by shadow housing minister John Healey for being an expensive con, with the money coming mostly from existing local authority support grants – as revealed in a pre-election Tory green paper.