Cooper will have to shift regional staff, who refused any other solution, into a new ‘transition’ arms-length body with their salaries preserved. Quangos: 1, Labour: 0…
| 1. Matthew Patrick | LAB |
| 2. Lorraine Beavers | LAB |
| 3. Oliver Ryan | LAB |
| 4. Fred Thomas | LAB |
| 5. Chris Coghlan | LIB |
| 6. Bradley Thomas | CON |
| 7. David Chadwick | LIB |
| 8. Bobby Dean | LIB |
| 9. Peter Prinsley | LAB |
| 10. Connor Naismith | LAB |
| 11. Andrew Lewin | LAB |
| 12. Munira Wilson | LIB |
| 13. John Grady | LAB |
| 14. Helen Maguire | LIB |
| 15. Joe Powell | LAB |
Yvette Cooper will set up a new quango to help abolish NHS England. It was ‘abolished’ by Wes Streeting in March 2025…
Some regional staff at NHS England, the largest quango in the UK with a budget of £200 billion, are on wages so high that they cannot be put onto Civil Service rates due to legal issues. Some salaries are healthier than others…
One year on from the so-called abolition transparency data revealed that the quango’s monthly wage bill somehow increased from £101 million to £104 million. Or an extra £35 million annually…
Cooper will have to shift regional staff, who refused any other solution, into a new ‘transition’ arms-length body with their salaries preserved. Quangos: 1, Labour: 0…
Meanwhile Labour is on a post-2024 high with a six-point lead. How’s that coup going, LibDems?
Burnham’s long-promised ‘Ten-Year Plan’ will now consist of a speech before Christmas along with a document that, according to the New Statesman’s Ailbhe Rae, will be “slimmer than expected”. This hallowed plan was supposed to be Burnham’s blockbuster blueprint for power. The thing that actually brought the substance after 100 days of TikToks and bar snacks…
Now, the plan will really mark the start of a six to nine month consultation – yet another consultation – rather than setting out what this government will do, what it’s for, and how it will pay for anything. That plodding process will then feed into next year’s spending review, which will itself take months to arrive. And don’t forget, this government’s ‘consultations‘ already leave a lot to be desired…
Over in the US Democrats have taken both the House and the Senate in their best midterm results since Watergate. NBC projects they will end up on 53 Senate seats and 255 House seats, with counting still going on. Trump said: “I don’t like to consider it a defeat for me. I wasn’t on the ballot”…
Seven Senate seats flipped:
Elsewhere overnight:
Trump has promised to be “Mr Veto” and posted a picture of a red “VETO” hat. Two long years ahead…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”