Funding NHS facilities with private finance a breach of manifesto, Labour MPs say

Kim Leadbeater says the draft law is approaching a “crunch point” after peers suggested more than 1,000 changes. Source link

Even Reform MPs failed to show up to hear the home secretary talk about migration, their specialist subject Truly we are spoiled. Not one, but two Commons announcements on immigration from the home secretary. Both of them statements of intent. Foreigners, your time is up. Britain isn’t just full. It’s super-saturated with all the wrong kind of people. Theresa May must be shaking her head. She got labelled with creating a hostile environment just for sending vans round to areas with a large proportion of immigrants, saying: ‘Piss off home. You’re not wanted.’ I guess those were gentler, kinder…

Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problems Voters will look elsewhere if Rachel Reeves does not use next week’s pivotal budget to show that “centre-ground” politicians can fix the UK’s entrenched economic problems, the former head of the civil service, Simon Case, has said. Case told the Guardian that at the time of last year’s general election, when he was still cabinet secretary, he believed Labour would be forced to break its manifesto promise to not raise taxes because of the state of the public finances. Continue reading……