Showing posts with label Social Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Care. Show all posts
Saturday, October 10, 2026

The Joy of Six 1589

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Chaminda Jayanetti on successive governments' failure to grasp the nettle of social care: "As far back as 1997, Tony Blair’s New L...
Friday, October 02, 2026

Lib Dem MPs are talking to the media about their concern at the party's direction

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Embed from Getty Images There have been whispers about discontent with the party's leadership among Liberal Democrat MPs for some time. ...

The Joy of Six 1585

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"Burnham’s speech was, in some ways, an exercise in calling the electorate’s bluff. 'I have given you what you often say is missing...
Friday, July 31, 2026

The Joy of Six 1555

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Benjamin Goodair says Andy Burnham is right to want for‑profit firms out of social care: "The majority of social care in England is ru...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1502

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"As need has grown and reform and resources have stalled, 1.9 million people in England alone provided a 'full-time' (defined a...
Monday, February 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1473

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Julia Baird says there are many questions that the people in Epstein's web of connections have never answered, but this one perplexes h...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Reform UK sack Joseph Boam as deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council

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A local political story broke on social media over the weekend and now Leicester Gazette has written it up: Joseph Boam, who was appointed ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Reform council leader pleads for government to soften new visa regime for care workers - Welcome to the real world

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The Reform UK leader of Kent County Council has written to the home secretary expressing "grave concerns" about government proposa...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Guardian editorial heaps praise on Ed Davey's "moral clarity rooted in lived experience"

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Does anyone read newspaper editorials? I never got the habit. But this one from tomorrow's Guardian in praise of Ed Davey's approach...
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Joy of Six 1360

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"If Morgan can beat the BNP in Barking, goes the argument, then surely he can do the same for Reform in Britain too. Yet in all the cov...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Lib Dems win £100m in concessions for allowing Labour's budget for Wales to pass

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Jane Dodds, the only Lib Dem member of Senedd, allowed Labour's budget for Wales to pass today by abstaining on the vote. As a result it...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Ed Davey will publish his book 'Why I Care: And Why Care Matters' in May

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After leading a strikingly successful first general election campaign, the next thing on a Liberal Democrat leader's to do list is the b...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

New Statesman: Lib Dems cheered and baffled by Kemi Badenoch

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Embed from Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have two strategic objectives in this parliament.  One is to be a better opposition than the C...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Love is Enough: Ed Davey sings in Bath on Saturday

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From Somerset Live : The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is to perform Top 40 Christmas hits with Bath Philharmonia Young Carers’ Choir...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Ed Davey teams up with choir of young carers to record their song Love is Enough

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Life as a young carer was tough, but it was also full of love. Tomorrow, Bath Philharmonia Young Carers' Choir and I are releasing a Chr...
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Monday, September 30, 2024

The Joy of Six 1273

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James Crouch argues that the greatest challenge the Conservative Party faces is a lack of unity among both its members and its remaining vo...
Monday, July 29, 2024

The Joy of Six 1252

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"The experience of that Royal Commission - on long-term care for older people - is instructive. It made four major recommendations rela...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Daisy Cooper quizzed on Lib Dem commitment to free social care

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Daisy Cooper is interviewed by Care Home Professional about Lib Dem policy on social care. As she says: "So many people don’t realise ...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Ed Davey talks about adversity and achievement on the What I Wish I'd Known podcast

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For The Times podcast What I Wish I'd Known , Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester talk to: extraordinary people living astonishing lives ...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Ana Savage Gunn wins Name of the Day - and will be the Lib Dem candidate if there's a Wellingborough by-election

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Congratulations to Ana Savage Gunn. Not only has she won this blog's rarely presented Name of the Day Award, she's been selected as ...