by Sam | 8 Aug 2014 | Politics
The Daily Mail has used a front page spread to report on figures showing that there are 3.2 million awaiting surgery in the UK, a rise of 700,000 compared with 2010. Ministers blame the increase on Britain’s ageing population and rising demand for new treatments, with...
by Sam | 7 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Labour’s attack plan for the summer recess has been to complete a volte-face on last year’s holiday season, when leader Ed Miliband’s Shadow Cabinet up and left to go on their holidays and Ed saw the Tories take momentum in to the autumn. This year Shadow Cabinet...
by Sam | 1 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015
So earlier this week Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham gave what is now an all too familiar diatribe against the terrifying reality that NHS are increasingly awarding contracts to provide services to private firms – companies that devlishly sell services for...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
There is some contention in the media today over whether Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to raise the threshold for the higher rate of income tax. Cameron said yesterday “I would love to make more promises. I understand the problem with the 40p rate kicking...
by Sam | 29 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham delivered a speech this morning as part of Labour’s “The Choice” summer series of speeches by members of the Shadow Cabinet. Dubbed as Labour’s “Summer Offensive”, the series aims to lay out the key choices facing voters in 2015....
