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Child poverty in the UK
News

Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 May, 2025

Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.

A photo of the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting
News

Labour government recruits over 1,500 extra GPs since October in bid to end 8am appointment scramble

Basit Mahmood
8 April, 2025

“This doesn’t mean it’s ‘job done’. Loads to do. But the NHS is going in the right direction.”

Ashfield
News

Lee Anderson’s constituents left shocked after being told about Reform’s plans to start charging for the NHS

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2025

Constituents in Ashfield, which is represented by Reform UK’s Lee Anderson were left shocked after learning about the party’s plans to make people pay to use the NHS. In a video released by the Trades Union Congress, people are askedtest

A photo of the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announcing that Labour will abolish NHS England
News

Reactions to Keir Starmer’s decision to scrap NHS England

Olivia Barber
14 March, 2025

Unions are unhappy about potential job losses while others are worried it could lead to further privatisation of the health service

An NHS lanyard
News

New poll reveals what NHS staff really think about the state of the health service

Chris Jarvis
12 March, 2025

This doesn’t make happy reading…

Streeting
News

Wes Streeting says NHS is ‘not up for grabs’ in context of UK-U.S. trade deal

Basit Mahmood
28 February, 2025

“The NHS is not up for grabs, it’s not on the table in the context of trade, but there are a number of areas where we can and should work together to deepen the trading relationship between our two countries.”

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Ignore the naysayers, Labour is delivering on our promise of change

Abdi Duale
25 February, 2025

In less than a year this Labour government has pursued a radical agenda to rebuild and reform our public services, and finally address the fundamental problems in our economy the Tories ignored for 14 years.

Donald Trump
News

138,000 sign up for campaign to ‘defend our NHS’ from Donald Trump

Chris Jarvis
24 February, 2025

38 Degrees say those who sign up will have a “powerful say in shaping our plans to keep our NHS off the negotiating table”

A photo of the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting

Labour government delivers an extra 2 million NHS appointments in its first five months

Basit Mahmood
18 February, 2025

The government says it has been able to deliver the extra two million appointments due to extra evening and weekend working.

Reform UK MPs Nigel Farage and Richard Tice

Nigel Farage and Richard Tice caught nodding at PMQs when Keir Starmer says Reform UK want to replace free NHS with insurance-based model

Basit Mahmood
6 February, 2025

Under Labour the NHS will always be free at the point of use for anybody who needs it.”

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