Analysis: Budget 2024: Keir Starmer Just Walked Right Into the Tories’ Trap
James Meadway
With nothing new left to say, Jeremy Hunt used his last budget to set Labour up to fail, writes James Meadway.
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Opinion: Jeremy Hunt’s Budget Didn’t Crash the Economy Again. So Why Aren’t Tories Pleased?
Tom Peters
The budget was a departure from the government's strategy of actively causing chaos and instability, writes Tom Peters.
Analysis: Jeremy Hunt Is Desperate to Ditch the Energy Price Cap. Too Bad His Own Voters Need It
Ell Folan
Last week chancellor Jeremy Hunt was again forced to U-turn on lifting the energy price cap. Try as they might to ditch it, necessity has bound the Tories to the policy, writes Ell Folan.
Analysis: The Tories Are Too Weak to Make Big Cuts Now, So They’ve Pushed Them Into the Future
James Meadway
The Tories know they are too weak to make unpopular cuts right now, writes James Meadway. But make no mistake, the politics of austerity still shaped the autumn statement.
Analysis: Austerity 2.0 is Another Con Job. Don’t Fall for It
James Meadway
The government is laying the groundwork for another round of cuts to keep big finance happy.
Long Read: The Tory Crisis Didn’t Start With Liz Truss and It Won’t End With Her
Jonas Marvin
Dominic Cummings warned a Truss premiership would be a ‘guaranteed fiasco’. But if the disaster lettuce has gone, the political decay that created her has not, writes Jonas Marvin.
Report: Just How Rich Are the Tory Leadership Candidates?
Novara Reporters
From Russian “blood money” to untraceable investments, we look at how much these 11 Tories are worth.
Novara Live: Coronavirus Whack-A-Mole
The Leicester lockdown shows everything wrong with the government’s whack-a-mole coronavirus strategy. Jeremy Hunt’s hypocrisy, Johnson’s ‘New Deal’, Starmer’s NEC power-grab, and Forward Momentum’s triumph. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Could a Labour Government Finally Abolish Private Education?
Ruby Woolfe
Whether Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt win the Conservative leadership we're about to get another privately educated prime minister. But within the Labour party opposition to private schooling is growing at last.
Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk
Dr J
In part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key principles of a universal NHS while distracting us from the political decisions underlying the crisis.
IMOBastani: We Will Lose Our NHS
Aaron shows four key areas where the NHS is in freefall. The solution to the present crisis? More resources, an end to outsourcing and, of course, the resignation of Jeremy Hunt.
IMOBastani: Jeremy Hunt is Killing the NHS
Last week the CEO of the British Red Cross said the NHS was facing a 'humanitarian crisis'. Aaron looks at the service's recent problems and how they reflect an intentional project, by the Tory Party, to privatise healthcare in the UK.
‘The government destroyed their trust’ – Reflections on the Junior Doctor Dispute and Next Steps in Defence of the NHS
Nicolas Carpenter
This week junior doctors voted to reject the government's revised contract offer. Where next for the fight for the NHS?
3 Reasons the Fight for the NHS Needs to Go on the Offensive
Callum Cant
Beyond the unsafe contracts being imposed on junior doctors, it's clear the current wave of strikes is also about the future of the NHS. With private providers waiting to pick at the carcass of universal healthcare, it's time to turn the pressure up.
Not Fair, Not Safe: 6 Reasons Junior Doctors Are Preparing to Strike
Nick Carpenter
Junior doctors are up in arms about the latest offensive from the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. From safety to pay to parental leave, Hunt has sought to impose harsh conditions and could now face the first strike by doctors in 40 years.
N-H-Guess: 7 Predictions for the National Health Service, 2015-2020
Peter Pannier
It's conference season! And with #GE2015 fast approaching our esteemed party politicians are all keen to outline why they're best-suited for the ivory towers of Whitehall. As if by magic, each is now able to confidently proclaim themselves to be 'the party of the NHS'. But what will really happen to the nation's favourite institution after 2015?