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...The ombudsman is a senior figure responsible for independently investigating complaints against UK government departments, other public organisations and the NHS in England....
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary, said that if Labour won the general election, expected later this year, it would conduct a review within its first year in office to assess the state of the armed forces...
...Brian Reissaus, former head of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has joined Freshfields as a senior adviser on national security. Smart reads Crime . . ....
...And we didn’t also foresee that austerity would go on in such a way that it would leave, you know, parts of the public services — and you can look at prisons, look at local government — in a complete state...
...John Dunne can remember quite clearly the fervour of the early Vaper Expo shows....
...The John Lewis Partnership is an employee-owned business, but its annual results on Thursday will no doubt be pored over given its status among British retailers....
...John Van Reenen: It will not....
...Maconie’s idealised state is kept afloat by people who devote their whole lives to the endeavour, such as a GP in far-flung Shetland who tends to her patients unceasingly, and a librarian who spends every...
...As well as the NHS, ministers face pressure to increase spending on the criminal justice system, prisons and social care....
...Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation, said: “This is a Tory government saying it is in favour of a bigger state....
...Shadow chancellor John McDonnell argued that Mr Hammond had still not eliminated the deficit — a promise made in 2015 — and that instead the pain of public spending control was intense....
...David Gardner explores the political ramifications of Saudi Arabia's decision to shelve the initial public offering of state oil company Saudi Aramco....
...John Llewellyn, Llewellyn Consulting That depends on the economics and the politics. The NHS, the police and the defence forces have all been starved for a decade....
...The privatisation of the major utilities and — since her time, but in continuation of her policies — of much of the criminal justice system (prisons, the probation service, forensic science, translation)...
...And when you look at the state of the public finances, Miranda, because this decision not been met by universal acclaim on the conservative side....
...This matters — the NHS has a limited budget....
...When I was a student, the librarian, faced with the problem that too many books were returned late, multiplied the fines for this misdemeanour by a factor of 10....
...Ms Booth recalls that a colleague’s sole concern had been whether she would retain her NHS staff discount at Dorothy Perkins, the clothing store....
...In a recent paper, John Hills, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, describes progress towards that goal as “glacial”....
...Polman serves as president of the Kilimanjaro Blind Trust and chairman of Perkins International Advisory Board....
...“So sorry,” the librarian told him apologetically. “The launch is off. You dissed the Olympics.”...
...Labour has effectively excluded the public sector from bidding to run services – for example, by building prisons under the private finance initiative, or creating privately run centres to treat NHS patients...
...In fact they are revolutionary in the true, English sense of the word: they seek a return to an earlier, better state....
...The chancellor has already commissioned a review led by John Hutton into state sector pensions....
...Having protected universal benefits and “needlessly” ring fenced the NHS budget, while introducing an “unaffordable” formula for raising state pensions, cuts in departmental programmes are bigger than they...
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