If there is one lesson we learnt from the EU referendum last year, it is that people are crying out for more control over their lives.
The second piece in our pre-Budget series on how to eliminate the structural deficit.
After 75 years of the latter’s strategy, most people in Copeland faced a choice of either working for the nuclear industry or being without a job.
Phenomenal progress has been made to halt and begin to reverse its spread. Sustaining our efforts now is vital.
To make STPs work, Ministers need to have the courage of their convictions. That starts with the NHS and social care budget, of which STPs should take full control.
Careers in the profession could be closed to people of faith if the General Pharmaceutical Council gets it way.
The social and financial costs of obesity are enormous, and fall disproportionately on the less well-off.
You can’t encourage people to take what are described as virtuous acts, only to punish them later financially.
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
A unitary council has meant huge savings – but we also work in partnership with the rest of the public sector.
The relief that obese people afford public services by dying early is almost never acknowledged in the health economics literature.
But the need for long term reform of the system will not go away.
The health service is meant to be the Opposition’s comfort zone, but their leader is losing even that.
Self-employed people earning less than £15,900 a year will still see a reduction in their NICs bill, and also benefit from the increased income tax personal allowance.