The major question thrown up by Labour’s benefits plans
Faisal IslamEconomics editor BBC In the next 24 hours and then over the following fortnight up until the Spring Statement, the government is going to talk a lot about a broken welfareRead More…
Faisal IslamEconomics editor BBC In the next 24 hours and then over the following fortnight up until the Spring Statement, the government is going to talk a lot about a broken welfareRead More…
Matt Hancock has defended government deals to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic, saying the country was in a “desperate situation” at the time. In a bad-tempered session at theRead More…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds Ministers, health staff and the public gathered in London last week for a summit to discuss the 10-year NHS plan inRead More…
PA Media Lord Patrick Vallance, former government chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the inquiry in west London Boris Johnson pushed for a more “ruthless, authoritarian approach” towards people who refused toRead More…
Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewerRead More…
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Emer MoreauBusiness reporter, BBC News Syreeta Sandhu Syreeta Sandhu has spent £15,000 on IVF IVF patients are being warned over unregulated “concierge clinics” after a popular one went bust leaving scores ofRead More…
Daniel WainwrightData journalist, BBC Verify and Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images Doctors and patient groups warn that the NHS in England is facing an uphill struggle on the government’s number one NHSRead More…
Ruth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporter, BBC News Getty Images Emma is doing something she swore she would never do. In an attempt to have some control over her children’s vaping habits, she’sRead More…
Alison HoltSocial affairs editor and James MelleySenior Social Affairs Producer BBC In the early days of the pandemic, care home staff donned full personal protective equipment The Covid inquiry will start examiningRead More…