*Comment & Analysis
The Food and Work Network – a coalition of academics, public health professionals, trade unionists and community activists based at Birkbeck College, University of London – today slammed as “wholly inadequate” the Government’s Food Strategy, arguing that “it’s time to declare a National Food Emergency” to reflect the gravity of the situation. The Network has… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the cost of clinical negligence claims against the NHS in the UK has risen to £86 billion. The astonishing figure, just published in the Whole of Government Accounts for the year to March 2020 has increased more than fourfold… Read more »
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Read David Miliband’s full intervention on the benefit cap debate triggered by the welfare benefits uprating bill.
The welfare benefits uprating bill, which caps payments such as tax credits at one per cent for the next three years, sees Labour’s Ed Balls walk into chancellor George Osborne’s trap. But there’s still a way for Ed Miliband’s team to come of it smelling of roses.
