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…
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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…
Boris Johnson’s ‘freedom day’ risks pushing the NHS into crisis
The central ethos of health care through millennia has been – and is – the hippocratic oath, which…
3% pay settlement a “let down” for health and care staff, Ashworth says
Jonathan Ashworth has described the announcement of a 3% pay rise for NHS staff by the government on…
Health unions threaten strike action over NHS staff 3% pay award
“Another day, another U-turn.” That was Labour’s response to ministers announcing a 3% pay rise for NHS workers,…
The health and care bill is a chance to reinvigorate our NHS. We must seize it
The Conservative government introduced the health and social care bill a decade ago. I was working in the…
Ministers publish controversial ‘corporate takeover’ health and care bill
Ministers have published the health and care bill – or the ‘corporate takeover bill’, as it is described…
Starmer’s office reshuffle and Labour’s call for a “long-term NHS rescue plan”
Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his top team continues. The widely anticipated departure of Jenny Chapman as director of…
