While Westminster frets over the Budget, Andrew Lansley has achieved...
There has been a great deal of talk about George Osborne’s relatively inconsequential budget over the past 48 hours, and this has caused Westminster observers to neglect a more significant development....
View ArticleA question for all the activists railing against the NHS bill: why didn’t you...
There is one very mysterious thing about all the respectable fury over the Government’s NHS bill – the question of why commentators and activists didn’t get similarly irate when the New Labour...
View ArticleHow the pro-choice Today programme distorted Lansley's inquiry into the abuse...
The Today programme obviously reckons it is the highest authority in the land – the Supreme Court, Government and General Synod all in one. Today sets the agenda and the priorities – and woe betide any...
View ArticleA government of nudge-nudge, wink-wink
This is a government of nudge-nudge, wink-wink. They don't do policy – that sounds too strait-laced and, you know, Tory. They do Behavioural Insights Team. A cabinet unit who "nudge" ordinary citizens...
View ArticleA speech that could transform Britain – and it wasn't David Cameron's
The coverage of Andy Burnham's speech to the King's Fund, outlining Labour's new health policy, has focused on the mechanics: the idea of a compulsory levy to pay for old-age care, aka our old friend...
View ArticleWhere was David Cameron for the gay marriage debate?
Given the way that the gay marriage row has split the Tories from stem to stern, you’d have expected David Cameron – whose personal crusade this is – to turn up in the Commons for the debate. Not a bit...
View ArticleBy shouting down all criticism, we condemn the NHS to mediocrity
Four years ago, at the very moment that he was presiding over the abominations at Mid Staffs – and, as we now know, several other hospitals – Andy Burnham, then Health Secretary, was calling me...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: A harsh winter for Jeremy Hunt
This is from the @TelePolitics Evening Briefing. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox THE OBVIOUS TARGET Jeremy Hunt has had a pretty good run as Health Secretary. Much of his success has sprung...
View ArticleEvening Briefing: No 10 threatens Zahawi
This is from the @TelePolitics Evening Briefing. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox for free FREEDOM TO THINK? Downing Street made threatening noises about Nadhim Zahawi, the MP whose...
View ArticleSilence now, trouble to follow: will the ultras strike back in 2017?
From the Morning Briefing: subscribe here For someone who left Brussels last week with a flea in his ear, David Cameron seems awfully chipper this morning. "I can still do business with Juncker,...
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