Nick Clegg
Health reform backers’ agenda: Cut the front line, introduce upfront payments
The real agenda of the backers of Andrew Lansley's ill thought out health reforms is to cut the front line and introduce upfront payments, writes Daniel Elton.
Health bill’s competition clauses are tantamount to privatisation
Should full-blown competition be introduced into the NHS we may see consequences that are tantamount to privatisation is all but name, writes Prateek Buch.
Hain: Help us build a modern, outward-facing progressive party
Labour's Peter Hain, chair of the Refounding Labour project, invites Left Foot Forward readers to help "rebuild a progressive political party fit for our time".
Lansley and Clegg still aren’t listening on the NHS – make them
David Babbs, Executive Director of 38 Degrees, writes about the lack of listening being undertaken by Andrew Lansley and Nick Clegg over the government's health reforms.
Clegg may be soft-pedaling on tackling competition in NHS bill
Nick Clegg has not demanded the role of competition in Lansley's health bill to be changed, only the appearence that there is a "dogmatic obsession with it".
Health bill will be gutted, say Lib Dem left
Key Liberal Democrat activists Dr Prateek Buch and Dr Evan Harris report on Liberal Democrat opposition to Andrew Lansley's marketisation of the NHS.