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Inside Labour's welfare split
This afternoon we had Liz Kendall’s long-awaited address in the Commons on Labour’s plans for welfare reform. The prospect of £5 billion worth of cuts to welfare has split the party in two, with fear…
Published on 9 months ago
Can the Tories save their education legacy?
Bridget Phillipson's schools bill is back in the Commons today. The scope of the legislation is twofold: firstly, looking at the welfare of children in schools and secondly at fundamentally changing …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/03/2025
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
NHS England will be demolished as Labour make sweeping changes to the NHS, and cuts are coming to welfare too, with Health S…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Is Keir Starmer a Tory?
Slashing the winter fuel allowance, maintaining the two child benefit cap, cutting international aid, cutting the civil service, axing NHS bureaucracy, possibly slashing welfare expenditure... you'd …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
The UK economy is shrinking - how much pressure is Rachel Reeves under?
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show the UK economy unexpectedly shrunk by 0.1% in January. This comes only a few weeks after the Chancellor's pro-growth speech, and a fortnight a…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Why Labour are abolishing NHS England
It was widely briefed that the main focus of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Yorkshire today was his plan to do away with Whitehall red tape. What was kept under wraps was the Prime Minister’s plans for…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
What will Nicola Sturgeon's legacy be?
Nicola Sturgeon has announced her intention to step down at the next Scottish Parliament election in May 2026. One of the original MSPs elected to Holyrood in 1999, Sturgeon has dominated Scottish an…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Has Ukraine called Putin’s bluff?
Last night there was a huge breakthrough in Ukraine peace talks, with Zelensky accepting a US proposal for a ceasefire and placing ‘the ball in Putin’s court’, according to Marco Rubio. While getting…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Starmer facing welfare rebellion
There is a row on the horizon over welfare cuts. Yesterday’s meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was packed, with many lobby journalists expecting fireworks. The Prime Minister got a posi…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Have Reform blown it?
Loyal listeners will remember that just three months ago we released a podcast asking: Is 2025 Farage’s year? The answer was ‘yes’, provided Reform UK can keep their five MPs in line...
As predicte…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago