Tories to RETRY bill to make you pay for your NHS Fri 15 June
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Friday, Tory MPs made an attempt to pass a bill yesterday to allow NHS patients to be charged for their treatment – a move described […]
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More pressure on May to resign – she personally vetoed NHS doctor visas
Yet more pressure is piling onto Theresa May with the revelation in tonight’s Evening Standard that she personally vetoed visas for Indian doctors desperately needed by the NHS. Hospital trusts went public […]
How many police have Tories cut in your area? Find out here
The last few days have seen the unseemly spectacle of Home Secretary Amber Rudd trying desperately to deny the obvious – that police cuts imposed by the Tories have played […]
Ten failed private health contracts worth £2.5 billion
Public attention is focused on privatisation and its dangers following the collapse of outsourcing and construction giant Carillion, a profit warning issued by fellow giant Capita and the government’s decision […]
Weds: Tories vote thru more police cuts. ONS today: 18% rise in murder rate in just 2yrs
In the House of Commons yesterday, the Tories voted through a police ‘grant’ or budget that was attacked by the Labour Party for its real-terms cut to police funding. Last […]
Video: is this why Hammond trampling safety in Budget rush to driverless cars?
The furore around heartless Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s remark on the BBC’s Marr show yesterday that there are no unemployed people has obscured some of the other warning signals about his budget […]
Williamson’s latest WiW video: another disastrous week for the Tories
Labour front-bencher Chris Williamson continues his entertaining and informative ‘Week in Westminster’ video series with this week’s offering, in which he describes another disastrous week for the Tories: their Brexit […]
Johnson blunder puts UK mum held in Iran at risk
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has already been responsible for a series of idiotic statements that have caused huge offence in the UK and abroad, through which he tries to bluff […]
It’s not ‘risk’ that people will ask how long May knew. We’re asking NOW
ITV politics editor Robert Peston has posted his analysis of Tory MPs’ fears that the ‘Tory sex pest’ scandal will bring down the government – and it’s another example of […]
71% of English hospital shifts at ‘red flag’ staffing levels – or worse
Last month, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) published a document titled, That document contains a bleak analysis of evidence that the RCN describes as ‘desperately sad’ – and among […]