Wes Streeting faces complaint and is accused of ‘uncomradely behaviour’ – after making a light-hearted joke about his former cabinet colleague_Nhy
Wes Streeting was subject to a complaint after making a light-hearted joke about his former colleague Louise Haigh following her resignation. The Health Secretary was accused of ‘uncomradely behaviour’ after mocking her for her fraud conviction at a Westminster awards dinner…
Labour’s £25bn employer national insurance raid prompts ‘paralysed’ bosses to stall hiring new staff, damning figures show_Nhy
Businesses have been left ‘paralysed’ as Labour’s £25bn employer national insurance raid prompts them to stall hiring plans, new figures show. The report from recruitment firm Manpower said intentions to take on more staff at the start of the new year…
Keir Starmer was uncompromising about the need for civil service reform_Nhy
Announcing his ‘Plan for Change’, Sir Keir Starmer was uncompromising about the need for civil service reform. Too many in Whitehall are ‘comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline’, he said, and must significantly improve their performance. Laying out Labour’s strategy…
Rachel Reeves warns Whitehall MUST find 5% efficiencies by 2029 as she channels Thatcher vowing ‘iron fist’ crackdown on waste – with Labour scrambling to avoid MORE tax hikes_Nhy
Rachel Reeves channelled Thatcher today vowing to deploy an ‘iron fist against waste’ as she scrambles to avoid more tax hikes. The Chancellor launched a ‘line by line’ review of government spending, warning that departments must find 5 per cent of…
Rachel Reeves vows to take an ‘iron fist against waste’ – as Chancellor launches the biggest audit of government spending in almost two decades_Nhy
Rachel Reeves has vowed to take an ‘iron fist against waste’ as she launches the biggest audit of government spending in almost two decades. Every pound of Whitehall spending will be examined ‘line-by-line’ in the Chancellor’s spending review, which will not…
Labour apes ex-Tory aide Dom Cummings’ plan to recruit ‘weirdos and misfits’ into reformed Civil Service as minister Pat McFadden tells ‘innovators and disrupters’ that ‘Britain needs you’_Nhy
Labour today echoed a plan by a former Tory aide to Boris Johnson to bring ‘weirdos and misfits’ into the Civil Service as it seeks to reform Whitehall. Pat McFadden namechecked a 2020 plan by former No10 chief of staff Dominic Cumming to…
Rachel Reeves says the UK calls for ‘more normal’ post-Brexit trade with the EU as she joins Brussels ministers and claims a soft ‘reset’ will help boost growth and raise living standards_Nhy
Improving trade ties with the European Union could boost the economy and drive up living standards, Rachel Reeves claimed today. She spoke as she became the first Chancellor to attend a meeting of European finance ministers since Brexit, saying it was a ‘milestone moment’…
Labour’s Veterans Minister ‘ignored pleas’ to give evidence at SAS war crimes inquiry – even when top Tory Johnny Mercer faced a jail sentence for protecting his anonymity_Nhy
The Veterans Minister allegedly ignored a High Court judge’s plea to provide evidence to a public inquiry into claims British Special Forces committed war crimes. Al Carns, who served in Afghanistan as a Royal Marines officer before becoming a Labour MP in July, may have…
Labour’s own voters think Starmer is a worse PM than Thatcher was… as poll shows Brits rate him below Major and on a par with Theresa May_Nhy
Even Labour‘s own voters think Keir Starmer is proving to be a worse PM than Margaret Thatcher, according to a poll. Research by More in Common offered more evidence that Brits are deeply unimpressed with the start Sir Keir has made in No10. Asked…
New houses over newts and Nimbys: Angela Rayner attacks conservation rules hampering building and vows to sideline locals to create 1.5m homes_Nhy
Angela Rayner lashed out at environmental rules hindering house building today as she claimed newts are ‘more protected than people’. The Housing Secretary suggested strict conservation regulations which have been accused of slowing down construction and making it more expensive could…