public services
Fraser Nelson gets it badly wrong in today’s Telegraph
It must have seemed like quite a discovery, when Fraser Nelson found a Department for Education report which proved “that the whole premise of Labour’s education policy – that cash matters most – was false”. Ignore for a moment the caricature of Labour’s 13 years in government; have Deloitte (who analysed the data on which Fraser Nelson’s argument is based) really discovered that levels of funding don’t matter in improving educational outcomes?
Owen Smith: Wales is leading the way with One Nation public services
Wales is leading the way with One Nation public services, writes Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Owen Smith MP.
Osborne reveals plans for even deeper cuts if Tories win in 2015
George Osborne today told the cabinet there will be even deeper cuts if the Tories win the 2015 general election.
Cameron told the big society is “effectively dead”
Today, Cameron’s flagship policy, the big society, has suffered a serious blow; a leading charity figure has described it as […]
What is our common purpose?
Former Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Kitty Ussher writes about public services and the economy ahead of the Progress Annual Conference.
Singing for a fairer future
The TUC have put together a public services campaign song ahead of the November 30th Day of Action against the government's savage public sector pensions cuts.