Budget 2026: What MPs, union leaders and think tanks want to see from Healey
John Healey is just one day away from delivering his first Budget as Chancellor, facing competing challenges and…
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Subversives, the sausage-making process and Cold War syndrome
Every organisation needs someone whose job it is to think their rivals are excelling and formulate the arguments…
For 2016, we should be debating different structures, not different personalities
On May 3rd voters across England, Wales and Scotland rejected the policies of austerity. In nine English cities…
Ed Miliband’s Queen’s Speech response
Today Ed Miliband gave a well received response to the Queen’s speech, you can read it below. —————…
Was that it?
Was that it? Two years since the last Queen’s Speech, and all the government could muster was a…
Dennis Skinner’s annual Queen’s Speech heckle – 2012 edition
Disappointment delivered
Today’s Queen’s Speech is being marketed by the Government as the second phase of the coalition, focusing, as…
Risk register veto – A desperate act and an admission of defeat
Yesterday the Cabinet decided to veto the release of the risk register for their massive NHS reorganisation, which…
Cameron is on the run again
Today David Cameron is in the house for the Queen’s Speech. He’ll be hoping that the relaunched coalition…
Towards 2016
We are disappointed that Ken didn’t win, despite leading in the polls nationally we had a clear demonstration…
The ticking time bomb of social care
EDIT: The Government has announced a draft bill on social care reform in the Queen’s Speech, but there…
