This pandemic should be a watershed moment for health inequalities
Inequality in health is the worst kind. If we address the factors that mean some people live shorter…
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Labour passes policy on NHS, social care, public services, LGBT+ rights
Delegates at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton have passed a batch of policy motions today on…
Labour’s ambition for social care is as far reaching as Bevan’s was for the NHS
Transforming social care is the challenge of our generation. This was true even before Covid struck, but the…
Commons passes health and social care levy by 56-vote majority
The health and social care levy, which will see National Insurance contributions increase by 1.25 percentage points to…
MPs back health and social care levy by 319 votes to 248
MPs have backed the health and social care levy, which will see National Insurance contributions rise by 1.25…
Starmer on levy: “We need to ask those with broadest shoulders to pay more”
Below is the full text of Keir Starmer’s response in the House of Commons to the government statement…
Rachel Reeves attacks National Insurance hike as “unfair tax on jobs”
Labour’s Rachel Reeves attacked the proposal of an increase in National Insurance today by describing it to opposite…
National Insurance rise for social care not the right way to go, Starmer tells PM
Boris Johnson will today unveil his social care plan, or at least the plan to fund the plan.…
NHS rescue plan needed as patients at risk of permanent disability, says Labour
Jonathan Ashworth has told ministers that the need for a “credible long-term NHS rescue plan to deliver quality…
Ashworth: Prioritise cutting NHS waiting times over “distracting ” reorganisation
Jonathan Ashworth has declared that bringing down the record high number of people currently on NHS waiting lists…
