BELINDA VARISCHETTI: Good afternoon Prime Minister. PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, great to be with you. BELINDA VARISCHETTI: Now the Government has been locked in a school funding dispute with the states who have been calling for the Commonwealth to stump … read more
TOM ELLIOTT: Mr Turnbull, good afternoon. PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. TOM ELLIOTT: Gonski 2.0 – just six years ago in 2011 we had Gonski, I guess 1.0, from then Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Why do we need another report like … read more
PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon. I’m joined today by the Education Minister Simon Birmingham and David Gonski. In the interests of our children and our grandchildren the time has come to bring the school funding wars to an end and to … read more
Labour will today announce that a future Labour Government will immediately halt the proposed closure of A&Es in England and carry out a full scale review of all proposals.
Having listened to campaigners and concerned patients up and down the country, Jonathan Ashworth, as Labour health secretary will immediately halt the Tories chaotic ‘sustainability and transformation plan’ (STP) programme.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, will say:
“Labour will put the best interests of patients at the heart of our NHS so today I’m announcing we will halt planned closures to hospitals and other services. We will have a moratorium on the STPs.
“We have listened to the hundreds of patients and campaigners up and down the country that have been pleading with the Government to hear their concerns about their local services. Threats of hospitals being closed, A&E services moved miles up the road, and children’s wards being shut, have caused widespread concern and confusion. What is more, these decisions have been decided behind closed doors, with no genuine involvement of local people. It’s a disgrace.
“The public deserves better. My first job as Secretary of State will be to review every single STP proposal looking at what’s in the interest of quality of patient care.
“We’ll ask a new body – NHS Excellence – to lead that review. And patients and local communities will be involved at every stage. Local people should be at the heart of decisions about how care is provided.”
read moreEmily Thornberry, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary of State, speaking on Channel 4 News, said:
“The truth is that Theresa May paints herself as a bloody difficult woman or a Margaret Thatcher figure, but I think this is less Margaret Thatcher and more Veruca Salt. You can’t just stand there and simply say: ‘I want, I want, I want’ when you are negotiating.
“What you have to do is to persuade the other side that you have some ideas that would be good for both sides. You need to be able to calm down and you need to be able to make friends and be prepared to compromise.
“Otherwise we are heading for a hard Brexit; we are heading for no deal and she must back off. A strong Brexit is about a deal that works for the British economy. We are talking about people’s jobs – that’s the important thing.”
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