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Good morning. The first draft I wrote of this email began by stating that the question of whether the Prime Minister would sack the Home Secretary after her incendiary – and reportedly not signed off – piece in The Times last week was…
The NHS is the best thing this country has ever invented. Right now, Labour has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the party that not only created it but restored it to glory after Tory neglect. In 2014, the NHS was the most efficient…
Wes Streeting’s speech to Labour conference a couple of weeks ago was a memorable one. It was big, bold and unapologetic. It didn’t take any prisoners. It was the Shadow Health Secretary at his best. If you’ll forgive me quoting fairly…
Good morning and welcome to the last of this year's LabourList's conference morning briefings. There's a few more speeches today – notably Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who will warn that without reform the NHS faces bankruptcy –…
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Monday morning at a LabourList fringe event said that “just as only Nixon could go to China, only Labour can be trusted to reform the NHS”. Streeting promised that reforming the NHS would be the…
Bringing Congress and conference to you LabourList is free to read, but on-the-ground reporting on the party and labour movement costs a lot of money. This week, my colleague Morgan Jones has been at TUC Congress – breaking news of union…
As we approach the next general election, many people are wondering how Keir Starmer would approach the problems in the NHS should he become our next Prime Minister. The situation is pressing, and the problems are urgent, because the NHS is…
A recent LabourList comment piece by Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs, described Labour health policy as being in evolution. This is an accurate description, as there is still no settled position on a number of…
Good morning. Wes Streeting has again stressed the need for “serious reform and modernisation” of the NHS and talked up the potential of technology to alleviate pressures within the health service. Addressing the NHS ConfedExpo on…
Keir Starmer is set to commit the next Labour government to ending "dangerous" accident and emergency waiting times after it was revealed that 23,000 patients lost their lives in A&E last year. The Labour leader will announce the party's…
With Rishi Sunak on his way to Japan for the G7 summit, it was the turn of his new deputy Oliver Dowden to head to the despatch box, facing off against Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner. It was an underwhelming performance from Dowden…
Wes Streeting has said the draft Labour policy programme recently revealed by LabourList shows "no-one can say we don't have any policy or ideas". But the Shadow Health Secretary warned in an interview with this publication that the party…
