Limiting the Prime Minister’s public interventions is wise, but it will backfire if Departments don’t step in to provide material fleshing out her agenda.
Parents and business need more help from the Government to avert a public health crisis.
We still see cases where there is a fundamental disconnect between British foreign policy and British aid. Today, the most perverse example of this lies in Yemen.
This measure, introduced on the Prime Minister’s watch when she was Health Secretary, simply isn’t working.
Responsibility for social care has been downgraded from a Minister of State post to the bottom rung on the Ministerial ladder, Under Secretary.
He says Health Secretary is “the best job in Government”.
Adopting the airlines’ no-fault investigation model is in the best interests of patients, and fits a pattern of minister-led Conservative reform.
Three thousand pharmacies may close down, rather as they did during the late 1960s and early 70s.
Downing Street and Conservative MPs should not abandon this reforming Health Secretary under pressure from the BMA and the unions.
It is vital that both sides get back to the negotiating table, with mediators if necessary, to prevent action which will harm patients.
The chaos theatre of Corbyn’s leadership may be making all the headlines now, but this autumn the Government will face fights over cuts.
There is a sense of entitlement that they should be carried along without any competition, meaningful performance reviews or a healthy fear of unemployment.
The meagre efforts of the Department of Health have failed to curtail it.