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’ arm’s-length body with their salaries preserved. Quangos: 1, Labour: 0…
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.”