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A FORMER aide to Health Secretary Steve Barclay has called for the “full privatisation” of the NHS.

Although for decades he was greeted by cries of “on your bike” wherever he went, Norman Tebbit never told anyone to get on a bike, said John Elledge in The New Statesman. He merely recalled, at the Tory conference in 1981, that during the Depression, his father had pedalled around…

“I love competition, and turning rejuvenation into a scientifically valid competition is very exciting,” Zolman once said.

Keir Starmer is performing a careful balancing act between maintaining his party’s economic credibility and defending a policy that is deeply unpopular among the majority of Labour MPs and supporters.

Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott: back in 2015 they were heralded as the left-wing “triumvirate who took control of Labour”.

It is a long acknowledged rule in British politics that a prospective party of government must identify its target demographic with an easily defined stereotype.

Just one day before polls open in England for the 2023 local elections, Labour is continuing to enjoy healthy double-digit leads, pointing to a potentially bruising result for Rishi Sunak in his first big test since becoming prime minister and Conservative leader in October.  

Without fanfare, boring politics is back. The Tories are identifying problems they then seek to fix. Labour is responding by saying it is nothing more than a sticking plaster. This is the accusation that will run until the next general election. In his article in the New Statesman in which…

The corporation needs clear and consistent rules. But more than anything it must learn to stop cowering before politicians, says writer and broadcaster John Kampfner