Tag: UK welfare reform
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In Office, but is Anyone in Power? Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for four weeks. He is already discovering the difference between authority and control. “Governing” ate the Listening Tour? Four weeks ago, Andy Burnham arrived at No 10 promising energy, visibility and reconnection. Two weeks of announcements followed. Some of them involved pork…
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U-TURN IF YOU WANT TO… It turns out that watching slow-motion car crashes is not so much fun. Following the reinstatement of pensioners’ winter fuel payment just a month ago, “justified” by HMG’s sudden discovery that the economic catastrophe that they thought they had inherited from the Conservatives had miraculously cured itself, comes the inevitably…