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Labour to omit social care reform from manifesto and scale back Lords plans

The Guardian

Dismay as key proposals are downsized in order to make election offer to voters ‘bombproof’ Labour is preparing to omit plans for large-scale reform of social care from its next election manifesto, scale back its plans for House of Lords reform during a first term in office, and recalibrate the way it presents its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan (..)

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Labour ditches radical reforms as it prepares ‘bombproof’ election manifesto

The Guardian

Plans to reform social care and House of Lords are trimmed as Keir Starmer’s party opts for caution ahead of vote Labour is planning only limited first-term reforms of social care and the House of Lords and a smaller green investment plan as part of a stripped-down general election manifesto, as it seeks to make its policies “bombproof” to Tory attacks. (..)

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Sunak faces fresh revolt from Tory MPs over small boats as No 10 hints at climbdown over onshore windfarms – UK politics live

The Guardian

Latest updates: business secretary hints that government may avoid rebellion over windfarms by giving in while row grows over Albanian asylum seekers A House of Lords committee has delivered a withering assessment of the measures in the autumn statement for adult social care.

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Boris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in Lords

The Guardian

Tory peers will try to amend PM’s controversial bill that has already sparked a rebellion by his MPs Boris Johnson is facing a showdown with Conservative peers in the House of Lords who will attempt to force his changes to social care back to the Commons, where the government suffered a significant rebellion on Monday night.

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being philosophical about it

Clinical Philosophy

This step of will itself inaugurates a new ‘political order’ (as it were), a new ‘economy’, within the psyche. The will must be actively put in play, not as a wish, but as a chosen moment of self-creation, as the fashioning of a new commitment. When I describe this as an ‘existential’ step, what I mean is that it’s self-creating.

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The English legal system in relation to social work practice

The Critical Blog

Structure The UK Parliament comprises two separate Houses: The House of Commons and the House of Lords. The leader of the party in power (the prime minister) chooses his cabinet which is made up of members from that political party who are also members of the House of Common (MPs). Laws that the Commons has the sovereignty to make.