Can Labour afford to be ambitious?
Can Labour afford to be ambitious?
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-report/2023/06/paying-power-labour-finance-revitalised-uk-tax-inflation-growth
As the era of cheap money ends, the party needs to get radical on tax.
Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?
Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/27/why-are-uk-telecoms-firms-imposing-inflation-busting-bills
Exclusive: Ofcom is facing calls to intervene after companies pushed through prices rises of up to 17% this year
Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’
Britain’s house price crash ‘will be the worst in the world’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/britain-house-price-crash-will-worst-in-world/
Downturn expected to be longest in the West as interest rate rise hammers mortgage market
Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder
Stephen Lawrence: BBC names new suspect in UK's most notorious racist murder
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65989993
Evidence about Matthew White, now dead, implicates other suspects and reveals more police failings.
NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'
NHS plans: Sunak says expansion means 'more doctors, nurses, and GPs'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66012333
The plan to reform NHS training and recruitment comes at a time of record-high waiting lists.
NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds
NHS trailing behind other major nations on life expectancy, study finds
https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-trailing-behind-other-major-nations-on-life-expectancy-study-finds-12909642
Researchers warn Britain's poor performance across several different major disease groups and health conditions including cancer, heart attacks and strokes - judged by preventable deaths - should be a serious concern for political leaders and policymakers.
NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report
NHS’s mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering report
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/26/nhss-mounting-failures-and-political-neglect-laid-bare-in-sobering-report
With its 75th anniversary fast approaching, the UK health service is ‘not by any means where it should be’, thinktank concludes
Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’
Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/24/disruptive-behaviour-leaves-excluded-pupils-units-in-england-full-to-bursting
Referral unit providers warn of overwhelming demand from unprecedented poor behaviour after pandemic lull
Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation
Union fury as figures show pay rises among top earners driving inflation
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/25/union-fury-as-figures-show-pay-rises-among-top-earners-driving-inflation
The best paid have had the highest wage hikes, but the majority of the workforce has seen salary growth fall, according to ONS data
Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis
Mortgage crisis: PM and chancellor face conundrum as rates rise - and there's no silver bullet to end the crisis
https://news.sky.com/story/mortgage-crisis-pm-and-chancellor-face-conundrum-as-rates-rise-and-theres-no-silver-bullet-to-end-the-crisis-12907052
Sky's Ian King explains the possibilities as the government seeks ways to support hard-pressed borrowers without stoking the inflation problem further.