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Conservative Home19 Jun 2026

Reva Gudi: When told ‘this is not how we do it in the NHS’ – I’ve started asking ‘Why not?’ even if that’s risky

Despite decades of 'reforms' that weren't really, the fundamental problems - waiting lists, workforce shortages, broken relationship with social care and the list goes on- are largely intact. All of this in the face of growing demand and finite resources. The post Reva Gudi: When told ‘this is not how we do it in the NHS’ – I’ve started asking ‘Why not?’ even if that’s risky appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home10 Jun 2026

Rafe Fletcher: How a Thai meal and Singapore shows our state should think about profit too

Most bizarrely, Brits abelieve the NHS generates a 34 per cent profit but It is, of course, not profitable in any way. And its sacred nature generates a consensus that anything else would be a moral transgression. That attitude pervades throughout public services. The post Rafe Fletcher: How a Thai meal and Singapore shows our state should think about profit too appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home8 Jun 2026

Thomas Heald: Scotland’s hospitality sector needs breathing space, not more burdens

When a pub closes, we do not simply lose a business. We lose somewhere birthdays are celebrated and football dissected, where neighbours become friends and people who might otherwise never meet end up discussing issues from politics to gardening to the best local takeaway.  The post Thomas Heald: Scotland’s hospitality sector needs breathing space, not more burdens appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home1 Jun 2026

Ed Kennedy: The great irony of Wes Streeting’s NHS legacy

For decades Labour warned that Conservatives would privatise the NHS. Yet Wes Streeting may ultimately be remembered as the Health Secretary who convinced growing numbers of GP practices that the traditional NHS model is no longer sustainable The post Ed Kennedy: The great irony of Wes Streeting’s NHS legacy appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home25 May 2026

Nigel Huddleston: Why does Labour have a problem with tourism and hospitality?

Since Rachel Reeves' first budget, about half of all jobs lost have been in the hospitality and tourism sectors – that's more than 100,000 jobs. Never mind about the tens of thousands more that have never been created in the first place. The post Nigel Huddleston: Why does Labour have a problem with tourism and hospitality? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home16 Apr 2026

Alexander Rooney: Is Wales about to sleepwalk into another government of failure?

On NHS waiting-lists alone this is a structural failure 27 years in the making. This is the consequence of a government more interested in expanding its own apparatus than fixing its own failures. The post Alexander Rooney: Is Wales about to sleepwalk into another government of failure? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home15 Apr 2026

Peter Fox: Nearly three decades of Labour in Wales has harmed the NHS, health workers and patients

A Welsh Conservative Government would immediately declare a health emergency and require every part of government to work on solving the endemic health crisis. The post Peter Fox: Nearly three decades of Labour in Wales has harmed the NHS, health workers and patients appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 Apr 2026

Stuart Andrew: Under Labour, the NHS doesn’t belong to the people who fund or use it, but the people who threaten it

Labour have chosen the union over the patient, the paymaster over the public, the path of least resistance over the demands of responsible government. Under a Conservative government NHS doctors will no longer have the right to strike. The post Stuart Andrew: Under Labour, the NHS doesn’t belong to the people who fund or use it, but the people who threaten it appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home6 Apr 2026

Arthur Reynolds: It’s time for the Tories to show Labour’s handling of the NHS is a dead end Streeting

The public has become immune to the new Labour spin Streeting personifies. When he took office, 41 per cent of the public thought Labour was best placed to run the NHS. Today, just 19 per cent say the same. It's up to the Conservatives to hold him to account. The post Arthur Reynolds: It’s time for the Tories to show Labour’s handling of the NHS is a dead end Streeting appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home6 Mar 2026

Julie Redmond: Drug addicts sleeping rough on our streets should not be accepted as normal

I am proposing a Westminster Street Recovery & Public Safety Plan centred on the creation of a 50-bed Recovery and Stabilisation Centre, a true Centre of Excellence for mental health stabilisation, drug recovery, and structured street transition. The post Julie Redmond: Drug addicts sleeping rough on our streets should not be accepted as normal appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home2 Mar 2026

James Ford: The Night Czar is dead. But for London’s publicans the Night Mayor has only just begun

The crisis engulfing the capital’s hospitality industry and destroying essential jobs is not easing up or going away. The post James Ford: The Night Czar is dead. But for London’s publicans the Night Mayor has only just begun appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home26 Feb 2026

John Oxley: The NHS is there to make you better, but is it there to get you back into work?

The scheme risks further diluting the NHS's performance, introducing a new layer of bureaucracy, and undermining our democratic choices about how money is spent. Services are best when they are focused – not when they are trying to do everything. The post John Oxley: The NHS is there to make you better, but is it there to get you back into work? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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