‘Labour should tax the tobacco industry – and spend the proceeds on public health’
Labour, it is fair to say, is pretty reluctant to attach its name to new taxes. The reasons…
Prevention
‘Reeves needs a BoE independence-style moment like Brown. Here’s one big idea’
If Labour wins the next election, the challenge it will face is clear. It must deliver a “decade…
Labour’s health mission: toward the right diagnosis but what about the treatment?
As a nation, we’re getting sick in all kinds of ways. Life expectancy gains have stalled, people are…
Labour’s health mission must be radical – and much wider than the NHS
Wes Streeting’s speech to the King’s Fund represented a thoughtful intervention on primary care. The makings of an…
Labour must fill the policy void on public services and put a focus on prevention
It is a mark of how much our public services have deteriorated that the famous pledges on which…
How can we deliver the Cruddas principles?
Jon Cruddas told the Local Government Association today that a Labour government “will reduce costs on the public…
We need to talk about children in care
Recently I met two prisoners, Nick and Lee. Both are in their thirties and both are in prison…
