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...The Tory margin in this constituency is just 2.4 per cent. In Lincoln, where the Tory margin is 7 per cent, the median wait is 17 weeks....
...If you have insight into the issues raised in this article, please contact laura.hughes@ft.com...
...Meanwhile, when former Tory minister Chris Pincher resigned as MP for Tamworth in September after a groping scandal, the candidate selected to contest the seat at the next election, Eddie Hughes, did not...
...Laura Hughes Yes, definitely....
...Starmer, whose main opposition party has a strong lead over the Tories in opinion polls, made the promise to hold a vote on assisted dying to campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen....
...“Everything I’m hearing is that they will kick-start private sector investment much more proactively than the Tories were able to do,” he added....
...Tory MP Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Treasury select committee, told the Commons on Wednesday: “When we brought it in, and I voted for it at the time, £50,000 a year was a high rate of income....
...“It would be the easiest thing in the world to go into the next general election just saying ‘worst crisis in NHS history’, ‘you can’t trust the Tories on the NHS’, ‘you’ve got 24 hours to save the NHS’...
...In his dysfunctional Hughes family, it is the parents who are earnestly socialist, while their returning son’s youthful rebellion has ushered him into the arms of the Conservative party....
...It would take only 29 Tory MPs to vote with opposition parties to defeat the bill, but Downing Street is hopeful it can secure victory at this stage....
...Cheryl Hughes, a detective chief inspector at Greater Manchester police, wrote to the MP on Monday....
...Plus, the FT’s Laura Hughes assesses Boris Johnson’s performance at the Covid inquiry....
...Senior Conservatives believe the turmoil engulfing Sunak over his Rwanda removals policy, including a key parliamentary vote on Tuesday in the face of a growing Tory rebellion, will overshadow his testimony...
...In a letter to Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a Tory MP who is campaigning against the tax, Hughes said the results of the review would be published alongside the Spring Budget in March....
...We had the head of the fiscal watchdog, Richard Hughes, calling the government’s plans for spending on public services after the election worse than a work of fiction....
...Its report comes ahead of an election expected next year, with opposition parties increasingly citing crumbling buildings as a symbol of the Tories’ unwillingness to invest in public services after more...
...His spending plans are already deemed unrealistically tight by economists and the OBR’s head Richard Hughes described them as beyond “fiction”, because the government had not said how they could be achieved...
...He added: “They are making decisions in the best interests, as they see it, of the Tory party and their best chance of creating divides into the election.”...
...But Hughes on Tuesday called November’s estimate “a tiny number compared to the risks you face”....
...Some Tories yearn for the days before the OBR, created in 2010 by the then Tory chancellor George Osborne to provide transparency to the public finances and to end the days of dubious economic forecasts...
...Union leaders were also delighted by Starmer’s promise to reverse Tory legislation that makes it harder to take industrial action....
...As Laura Hughes reports, the government’s commitment to building 40 new hospitals is nowhere close to being kept....
...The multibillion-pound giveaway on personal and business taxes was achieved by deciding not to protect public services against the rising costs of inflation, Richard Hughes, head of the independent Office...
...Some Tory MPs on the right have become convinced that ambitious tax reductions are the only way that Sunak can drag the Tories away from a path towards apparent electoral doom....
...Tory campaign poster pulled | The Conservatives posted a montage of images on social media, declaring Britain to be “the second most powerful country” in the world....
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