by Sam | 24 Sep 2014 | Health
The NHS, as expected, has taken centre stage at this year’s Labour Party conference, with a number of the Shadow Cabinet talking extensively about the Labour’s health plans, which promise to be at the centre of the Party’s general election campaign. Shadow Chancellor...
by Sam | 24 Sep 2014 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, an American sitcom was auditioning its cast. One of the eventual cast members supposedly approached the audition with such gusto that he actually knocked himself unconscious. When he came to, the producers told him he’d got the part. The lesson: first...
by Sam | 24 Sep 2014 | Children and Families, Justice
Young people are being denied the right to justice because cuts to legal aid are preventing access to representation, a report by the office of the Children’s Commissioner said this week. Legitimate claims for housing, welfare and other cases are being left by the...
by Sam | 24 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Andy Burnham has this morning delivered his speech on the NHS at Labour’s Annual Conference. As expected Burnham focused his criticism on the “top-down re-organisation” of the system and what he considers as a plan to “run it down, break it up, sell it off”. The rest...
by Sam | 23 Sep 2014 | Health
Labour leader Ed Miliband has given his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference in Manchester – the final Labour Party conference before the general election in 2015. In his speech, he announced that should Labour win the election in 2015, they would repeal the...
