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Public services policy

July 2024

  • A smiling Wes Streeting walks to No 10 after the election result on Friday

    Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks with junior doctors

    New health secretary aims to resolve dispute in England and warns health service is ‘not good enough’
  • Junior doctors hold orange and white placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors'

    Labour must take immediate action to deliver on workers’ rights, says union chief

    Post-election honeymoon will be brief unless Keir Starmer holds summit with unions within days, says TUC president
    • NHS leader calls for partnership with private sector to build new hospitals

    • ‘Unambitious’, ‘careful’, ‘authentic’: what public sector workers make of Keir Starmer

    • Austerity was a disastrous political choice that we are still reeling from

June 2024

  • Sunak talks to two schoolboys

    Revealed: how Sunak dropped smoking ban amid lobbying from tobacco firms

  • Junior doctor on picket line holding placard.

    Junior doctors strike in England despite risk of scoring ‘own goal’

  • Keir Starmer, sitting next to Rachel Reeves, gestures while talking to people

    Labour drafts options for wealth taxes to ‘unlock’ funds for public services

  • Charles Huang on his private plane

    Boss of US firm given £4bn in UK Covid contracts accused of squandering millions on jets and properties

  • Almost half of UK adults struggling to get prescription drugs amid shortages

  • ‘People should not wait two years to be tried’: inside the crown court crisis

  • Deadly cancer treatment delays now ‘routine’ in NHS, say damning reports

  • NHS is ‘struggling’ but ‘not destroyed’, chief in England says

  • ‘Health MOTs’ planned for people aged 65 and over arriving at A&E in England

  • Trust in British politics hits record low, latest BSA survey finds

  • Incoming ministers ‘will face UK public services on brink of collapse’

  • Rachel Reeves under Labour pressure to raise capital gains tax to revive public services

  • Increase public sector pay or risk strikes, TUC warns Labour

  • English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

May 2024

  • Junior doctors on strike in London

    Junior doctors’ strike could delay care for 100,000 NHS patients in England

    Rishi Sunak says timing of action days before general election appears to be ‘politically motivated’ to help Labour
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