The Institute for Government think tank has published a report warning that handing so much government business to only a few large strategic suppliers is a risky strategy.
Public finance body Cipfa has reported that funding for Britain’s libraries fell by £30 million in 2017/18, with a loss of 712 full-time staff.
We must leave the EU on 29 March 2019. It’s what Britain voted for in June 2016 and that decision must be carried out.
11 December 2018
If May is allowed to remain in office, there will be no Brexit – just interminable pretend negotiations. She has to go.
10 December 2018
In echoes of May’s Brexit “negotiations”, a proposed Swiss agreement over free movement from the EU is facing likely defeat.
9 December 2018
Bus drivers in two areas of northern England are striking over pay.
6 December 2018
The horticultural industry is becoming clear about what is needed to secure the sector’s future post-Brexit. Growing more in Britain would offer economic gains and increase biosecurity according to a recent report.
27 November 2018
Despite the pouring rain, around 150 people last weekend heard speaker after speaker call for an end to the deregulated and de-facto monopoly of Bristol’s buses under private company First Bus.
26 November 2018
This weekend Prime Minister Theresa May came out as the EU’s agent in Britain.
26 November 2018
Three separate publications in November have highlighted the gowing crisis in social care.
26 November 2018
The title of a meeting organised by Halifax trades council tapped into the public shock at the betrayal being enacted before our eyes.
26 November 2018
Greenwich teachers have effectively made their part of London a no-go area for the further academisation of its schools, led by the National Education Union at The John Roan School.
