In December 2020, the National Infrastructure Commission advised the government to delay plans for the proposed stretch of the High Speed 2 rail line which would run from Birmingham to Leeds. The spiritual successor to the dead-on-its-feet Conservative policy of…
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced last week several health service reforms for the coming months. These changes will focus on the structure of the NHS and the rolling back of reforms implemented in the early years of David Cameron, particularly…
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has promised £3.5 billion in grants to remove flammable cladding from UK homes, in a long-awaited government announcement. But more than three years after the fire at Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people, many see the…
If the last few years of politics proved anything, it is that the most unexpected situations quickly become reality. Few, even Nigel Farage, thought that Brexit would ultimately triumph in 2016. Though Jeremy Corbyn was hugely defeated in 2019, his…
On the 3rd February, it was announced that Dr Alex George, a contestant from the 2018 series of Love Island, was appointed as the ‘Ambassador for Mental Health’. While the move may reverse some of the PR damage that influencers have experienced…
The 2019 general election was a huge moment for the United Kingdom – one that proved to be vital in our exit from the European Union. But if you wanted to find an example for the term ‘double-edged sword’, this…
‘Global Britain’ – that was the inspired vision touted by Boris Johnson in the wake of the UK’s watershed decision to withdraw from the EU in 2016. Yet, amidst the noise and the furore of the pandemic, the prime minister…
A report this week released by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) showed three concerning developments; 1 in 10 workers have been told to reapply for their jobs on worse terms or face being sacked, working hours have substantially decreased, and…
Considering a vote on Scottish independence was convincingly compared to another referendum that we have seen in recent times, which voted against the Union’s separation just over six years ago. Therefore, it would seem odd that we are asking this…
Last week in an op-ed in the Sunday Telegraph Keir Starmer claimed that Labour will be “the party of the family.” The following day, he gave a speech which mentioned the word ‘family’ or ‘families’ 17 times and framed the Government’s plans…