His plan for 2024 is to say: “I may not be most exciting politician in the world. But I’m the more reliable of the two before you. What I promise I then deliver.” It’s unlikely to be enough on its own.
“These five promises are the people’s priorities. So, they’re my immediate priorities, too. But they’re not the limit of my ambitions for our country. They’re the foundation.”
The Prime Minister sets out his plan for 2023 – to focus less on politics, and more on the things people care about.
The speed with which the Prime Minister agreed to impose restrictions on Chinese travellers is deeply concerning.
These changes would be resisted by the trade unions – understandably as it would render them pretty irrelevant. But their members would be empowered.
Demands from other parts of the public sector are a huge burden. Forces are always there to help in times of need, but they are not a substitute for the NHS, ambulance services, or mental health practitioners. Maybe a directly elected health commissioner might help?
Talking a good game about the health service’s failings is a very different art to ending an unsustainable model.
Post-pandemic complacency is threatening the competitiveness of the industry; fixing that would not only stimulate growth, but also deliver better outcomes for patients.
More and more Quangocrats paid well in excess of the Prime Minister have added to costs without adding to performance.
The former Health Secretary, and newfound star of reality TV, seems oblivious to the air of bogusness which hangs over so many of his claims.
Foreign labour is an alternative to ministers facing up to how successive governments have gummed up domestic training and recruitment of medical staff.
The Prime Minister must make up his mind whether or not to see through a policy to stop the small boats – now an issue of profound symbolic importance.
Research found that just a 30-minute drive by car to an alternative provider of NHS care, public or private, can shave 14 weeks off your waiting time, lowering it from 22 weeks to just eight.