The Guardian

APRIL 26, 2024

Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties A hero – then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower More than 150,000 unpaid carers are facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, figures show, as MPs, charities and campaigners demand an immediate amnesty.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 19, 2023

End of free movement of workers from EU has significantly increased possibilities of exploitation, care watchdog tells MPs Post-Brexit restrictions on the free movement of workers from the EU have contributed to modern slavery becoming “a feature” of the care sector in England the Care Quality Commission has told MPs.

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The Guardian

JUNE 27, 2023

Former health secretary says he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for every death and says he knows an apology from him will be ‘hard to take’ The journalist Isabel Oakeshott thinks Matt Hanock is giving a “typically assured” performance.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 23, 2023

If a technical recession – one that charts a decline in gross domestic product (GDP) across a six-month period – comes to pass, it will reveal that Rishi Sunak’s mix of income tax rises and public sector cuts have backfired, as many experts said they would, leaving the UK worse off in almost every way possible. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor denies postponing financial pain as fiscal watchdog’s figures show eight years of income growth wiped out In the Commons Rishi Sunak is making a statement about the G20 summit. Sunak started by talking about the missile incident in Poland. They don’t normally include fresh announcements.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Around 100,000 civil servants from multiple government agencies have voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs According to Pat Leahy , political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2022

No matter that leaving the EU has tangled up businesses in form-filling, fees and a new world of unbelievable complexity: Rishi Sunak says he wants to “go further and faster in using the freedoms Brexit has given us to cut the mass of EU regulations and bureaucracy holding back our growth”.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alok Sharma , the Cop26 president, said he was “delighted” Rishi Sunak will now be attending the Cop27 summit in Egypt. And he said he completely agreed with Sunak’s comment that “there is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change”.

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The Guardian

JULY 3, 2023

New Conservatives such as Miriam Cates also say large number of arrivals risks damaging UK’s cultural security Rishi Sunak risks damaging “cultural security” and faces defeat at the next general election unless emergency measures to curb net migration are introduced, a new group of Conservative MPs has warned.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Clampdown announced by James Cleverly is a shift in strategy by the government, which is rated poorly by the public on the issue Soon after James Cleverly was announced as the new home secretary, one Labour frontbencher expressed surprise at the appointment.

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The Guardian

JULY 2, 2023

Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugees Rishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 4, 2021

After years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’ Craig Cheney sits slumped in his chair, with a look of dejection in place of his usually cheery demeanour.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 8, 2022

Opposition criticises decision not to make big fiscal interventions in final weeks of Boris Johnson’s premiership Earlier this year Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit opportunities minister and one of the most hardline Brexit enthusiasts in the government, tried to persuade colleagues to get the government to commit to getting rid of all retained EU law within (..)

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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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The Guardian

JULY 29, 2022

Tory leadership candidates have clashed bitterly but many pressing matters have been overlooked Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have clashed vehemently over tax and spending, immigration and the UK’s stance on China in their acrimonious battle to become prime minister – but have had little to say about many other pressing issues.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 29, 2022

PM and chancellor make firm commitment to increase after reports of ‘wobbling’ on policy Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have doubled down on a planned tax hike to boost health funding, after it was reported that the prime minister was “wobbling” on the policy.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 4, 2023

Overworked staff allocated extremely short care calls by local authority struggling to meet users’ needs Care workers are taking as little as three minutes to help vulnerable people in their own homes, the social care ombudsman has found, after discovering a council was allocating extremely short visits to hundreds of people.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 9, 2022

As Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak slug it out for PM, rightwing papers are waking up to the looming economic catastrophe The gloves are off and it’s bare-knuckle, below-the-belt slugging. No use now saying she was “ misrepresented ” yet again: she’s been panicked into promising her own emergency budget.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Prime minister faces backbench rebellion over controversial plans to scale back the cap Boris Johnson has been warned not to take the support of his MPs for granted, as he faces a backbench rebellion over controversial plans to scale back the social care cap, after a tumultuous fortnight at Westminster.

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The Guardian

JUNE 30, 2023

The government has finally accepted responsibility for staff. But years of neglect have harmed patients as well These are the worst of times for the NHS in England. Public satisfaction is at its lowest level since it started to be measured 40 years ago. Staff morale is shattered, with retention a growing problem. million full-time equivalents.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While the pandemic exacerbated many of them, hugely increasing pressures on staff, political failures and, above all, a lack of investment are making it impossible for the service to stand still this winter – let alone recover. The alarming but very real prospect is that things could get worse. Such fears appear prescient.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 22, 2023

The searing memories of this winter will endure and any action ministers take now will come too late to improve their standing at the next election Crisis, conflict and collapse have driven the NHS to the top of the political agenda. Every day brings new horror stories from the frontlines of a health service on its knees.

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The Guardian

APRIL 6, 2022

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are using stealth and misdirection to dodge hard long-term policy challenges Last September, Boris Johnson broke a manifesto pledge by announcing a 1.25 percentage point rise in national insurance contributions.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But it could only stay there by operating within recognisably rightwing political parameters, and it couldn’t keep that act up for ever. Sure, New Labour was in power. Eventually the public would turn back to the real Conservatives.

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Interventional 58

The Guardian

MAY 25, 2023

The letter , signed by 50 researchers and more than a dozen organisations, including the NSPCC and Victim Support, urges Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak to avoid narratives on abuse based on “misinformation, racism and division”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

APRIL 8, 2023

Suella Braverman’s false claims about ethnic grooming gangs is not only abhorrent, but reduces awareness of who the real perpetrators are Child sexual abuse is a heinous crime that evokes a strong emotional reaction because it is so hard to make sense of. What kind of adult would do that to a child?

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The Guardian

MARCH 1, 2023

Sammy Wilson , the DUP’s chief whip, has said that he thinks the Stormont brake – the mechanism at the heart of Rishi Sunak’s deal to revise the Northern Ireland protocol – will turn out to be “fairly ineffective”.

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