by Whitehouse Communications | 31 May 2021 | Children and Families, Civil liberties, Human rights and equality, Justice, Tory Leadership
When Tony and Cheri Blair moved into Downing Street following Labour’s 1997 general election victory, leaders of the Catholic community expressed their delight that a “Catholic family had moved into Downing Street”. Similar expressions emerged when...
by Whitehouse Communications | 22 May 2021 | Civil liberties, Education & Children's Services, Human rights and equality, Justice, Politics, Public Sector, Third Sector, Whitehouse News
Without free speech, there can be no free exchange of ideas, no free society and no effective democracy. Even, or perhaps especially, during the pandemic there has been robust public discourse about the scale and impact of the threat to life and to the economy that...
by Whitehouse Communications | 18 May 2021 | Communications, Education & Children's Services, Environment, European Union, Local Government, Politics, PR and Media Relations, Public Sector, Tory Leadership, Whitehouse News
“Don’t extrapolate too much from the Isle of Wight local election results.” So warns Whitehouse Communications Chair, Chris Whitehouse, writing on influential political blog site, Conservative Home. “Despite the Conservatives’ loss of overall...
by Whitehouse Communications | 12 May 2021 | Communications, Education & Children's Services, Employment, Energy, Energy and environment, Environment, Food & Drink, Food, Nutrition and Public Health, Health, Health and Social care, Human rights and equality, Justice, Local Government, Nutrition, Planning, Politics, PR and Media Relations, Public Sector, Transport, Transport and infrastructure, Welfare, Whitehouse News
The Queen’s Speech may have lasted only a few minutes and announced only a couple of dozen new Bills. But the full briefing document runs to 163 pages and contains a few unexpected surprises for policy wonks and political nerds like me. The full text of the...
by Whitehouse Communications | 7 May 2021 | Communications, Energy, Energy and environment, Environment, Local Government, PR and Media Relations, Public Sector, Transport, Transport and infrastructure, Whitehouse News
Government in England is determined to increase consistency in recycling to reduce confusion in the materials that can be collected for recycling at kerbside, and to address the urban myth that much of the “recycling” carefully separated out by households...
