The appearance of David Cameron and Sadiq Khan on the same platform has been portrayed as a triumph for cross-party consensus. But what brings David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan together is the desire to use the EU to overrule the democratic majority of the British people. Labour remainers say that the EU prevents… [Read More]
The latest housebuilding figures published this week were a significant moment in the life of this government, as they provided the first meaningful progress update against its ambition to build a million more homes across the parliament. They showed that after the first of five years, output is a long way off target. There were just… [Read More]
The NHS is the Bear Grylls of healthcare systems around the world. As with the insect eating survival guru, no matter how far into crises it is plunged, until now, the system has always managed to survive, by pulling one trick after another out of the bag or by securing yet more government money to… [Read More]
Two days of all-out strikes by junior doctors have come to an end, and not a lot seems to have been resolved. The full walk out seems to have restored the strike in terms of public attention to that following their first strike, whereas further partial strikes had gradually dwindled in impact. The total walk-out generated a great deal of discussion… [Read More]
Britain’s voice in the European Union will be reduced to that of a ‘five per cent shareholder’ if it votes to remain in the forthcoming referendum, Cabinet minister Chris Grayling said today. Speaking to a Civitas seminar, the Leader of the House of Commons warned that the continued integration of the eurozone nations would leave… [Read More]
In the words of Maureen Baker, chair of the Royal College of GPs, the government’s announcement of an extra £2.4 billion of funding for general practice is ‘the most significant announcement for our profession since the 1960s’. This initiative will raise the total expenditure on General Practice from £9.6 billion to over £12 billion (a… [Read More]
The £116 billion spent on NHS services this year is a colossal sum of money. It needs to be due to the huge demand for healthcare from Britain’s unhealthy population. Because of this, although budgets in other government departments, including local government, have been substantially cut, the NHS’s has been expanded, and will need to be every… [Read More]
The biggest certainty ahead of the EU referendum is that Britain will be marginalised by the eurozone if it votes to stay in, John Longworth warned today. Mr Longworth, the former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), told a Civitas seminar: “The things that the prime minister says, incorrectly, will happen to… [Read More]
In our revolutionary century a monarch was overthrown in 1649, a republic was tried out until 1660 when it was abandoned in favour of a restored monarchy, then the monarch was overthrown again in 1688 and parliamentary democracy established. The great writers of that era, such as John Milton, James Harrington and Algernon Sidney, interpreted… [Read More]
Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary, warned today that the eurozone was on the path to ‘bust or federalism’. Speaking to the cross-party think tank Civitas, he said the single currency had rendered the EU ‘dysfunctional’ with consequences for everything the bloc does. Lord Owen, who was for many years a strong supporter of the… [Read More]