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...Too little of this has happened, partly because of cuts and volatile budgeting; but also because of what Tony Blair once called “the forces of conservatism”....
...Cruddas identifies Blair’s first term and the 1945 government as exemplars....
...“Lots of people work hard — doctors, nurses, teachers and so on. So yes, I do feel uncomfortable. Or I did. I don’t feel uncomfortable now because I’m giving it all away.”...
...“No way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen,” he wrote in an article at the time. “I am profoundly anti-empire.”...
...The writer is a political strategist at BCW communications and former political secretary to Tony Blair A paradox is haunting British politics....
...But such events are sadly not entirely unknown, either in Britain or abroad, and reflect the fact that doctors and nurses have the power of life and death over their patients....
...for Blair....
...Meanwhile, doctors and nurses’ unions resist any suggestion that care workers (not their members) might take on some of this work....
...The last time a majority of Britons approved of the country’s leadership was in 2006, when Tony Blair was prime minister....
...So, commonly, large chains employ many other professionals to fill the gaps — paramedics, extended practice nurses, psychiatric nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists. This can be helpful....
...Last year, he said: “Anybody earning 30-odd grand a year, which most nurses are, using food banks — then they’ve got something wrong with their own finances.”...
...In Tony Blair’s first term, he promised to raise spending to the EU average, with big annual cash injections....
...You’ve only got to look at what the striking doctors and nurses, railwaymen and so on say now, to realise it’s cumulative....
...This is why Jeremy Hunt, one of the government’s most effective politicians, has brought in Patricia Hewitt, a Blair-era health secretary, to advise on NHS efficiency, while Michael Gove, the government’...
...Top stories today Nurses’ stand-off with ministers | The government yesterday rejected the case for awarding nurses a better pay deal as they staged a historic strike and some Conservative MPs voiced their...
...Blair talked about the “scars on my back” from trying to undertake radical public service reform. It will not be easy....
...This precipitated the crisis which led to the introduction of £3,000 tuition fees in the early 2000s by the Labour government of Tony Blair....
...On Monday, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves promised that if in power the party would reinstate the top income tax band and spend the proceeds on increasing the number of doctors and nurses in the...
...John McTernan, a political strategist and former adviser to Tony Blair, said: “I think this was the year of reality and material facts. Material facts are quite problematic for populists.”...
...He certainly referenced Blair, he referenced Attlee, he referenced Wilson, but there was this sense of him owning as well his working-class roots....
...Afterwards a splenetic Brown reportedly told Blair that he had “stolen my fucking budget”....
...So if you’re sent to a clinical nurse who knows about the thing you’re going to see them about, that’s absolutely fine....
...Tony Blair, David Cameron or Boris Johnson would have defused the situation with a smile....
...Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse will also be made a Companion of Honour for his contribution to scientific research....
...young man trying to carve out a future on precarious earnings, from Sule Rimi as twitchy busybody Turnbo, Geoff Aymer as the quiet, calm Doub and above all from Wil Johnson as the tormented Becker and Blair...
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