Peter Hoskin

Darling’s gamble

Alistair Darling’s refusal to guarantee the savings of those councils and other bodies which have money tied up in Icelandic banks could have some particularly nasty side effects.  Writes the Times:

“…The Times learnt that some town halls were considering withdrawing all their cash from private institutions and putting it into more secure Government bonds.

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The NHS faces an institutional and structural problem in the way it works, Wes Streeting believes. ‘Unless it changes, it’s not going to survive.’ The shadow health secretary’s ‘tough love’ philosophy suggests NHS bosses are very much mistaken if they expect much more generous health spending under a Labour government. Instead, Streeting has slammed the

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