Sky News Politics30 Mar 2026
PM issues 48-hour ultimatum over 'reckless' doctors' strikes
Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to withdraw an offer of thousands more NHS jobs should resident doctors go ahead with strike action next week.
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BBC Politics30 Mar 2026
Welsh Labour promises NHS will see people within 48 hours in manifesto
Leader Eluned Morgan made her pledge as she launched her party's Senedd election manifesto in Swansea.
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Guido Fawkes30 Mar 2026
NHS England Only Drops 10% of Its Staff One Year After ‘Abolition’
NHS England has only shed 10.5% of its staff one year after Starmer announced it would be ‘abolished’ to great fanfare. A blow to Wes Streeting’s claim to be able to blast through the barriers of the state… Information obtained by Guido’s FOI Unit shows that there were 17,377 employees of the quango on 1st…
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The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026
NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive service
Health secretary still confident of success but critics say scrapping of NHS England has been ‘a total car crash’ NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England In the Great Hall at the University of East London last Wednesday, the perennially upbeat Wes Streeting was exuding even greater positivity than usual. After years of neglect under the Conservatives, he said, the NHS was starting to revive thanks to Labour’s medicine. In a bravura performance in front of an a
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The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026
NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England
Exclusive: Health secretary’s pledges in doubt as analysis shows health service will not deliver key improvements The NHS is set to miss key targets to shorten waiting times for help at A&E, cancer care and planned hospital treatment, leaving millions of patients facing persistently long delays. The health service in England will not deliver a series of milestone improvements in its performance that ministers demanded it achieve by the time the fiscal year ends on Tuesday, a Guardian analysis of
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The Guardian Politics27 Mar 2026
Reform candidate in Wales steps down after apparent Nazi salute
Party announces Corey Edwards’ decision to quit Senedd election campaign on grounds of mental health A Reform UK candidate for the Welsh Senedd elections in May has announced he is standing down because of his mental health, after a photograph emerged of him apparently making a Nazi salute as an imitation of Adolf Hitler. The announcement by Reform comes a day after Nigel Farage defended Corey Edwards, its lead candidate for the Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg constituency, saying he might have instead
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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026
NHS bosses say resident doctors’ strike will cause ‘maximum harm’
BMA’s decision to withdraw from talks with government and NHS chiefs has sparked a war of words NHS bosses have accused resident doctors of seeking to cause “maximum harm” to patients by striking for six days next month over pay and jobs. Wes Streeting has given resident – formerly junior – doctors in England until 2 April to reconsider their rejection on Wednesday of his “generous” offer to end the dispute. It would have given them £700m in extra pay over the next three years. Continue reading
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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026
Labour failing to live up to ambition to overhaul public services, analysis finds
Ministers not on course to meet their objectives, including to shift power from Whitehall to local areas, says IfG Keir Starmer’s drive to overhaul public services is failing to live up to its aims of shifting power from Whitehall to local areas, a report from the Institute for Government (IfG) has found. Last summer, the government set out its three guiding principles for reform aimed at making public services such as the NHS, court system and children’s social care easier to access and better
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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026
The Guardian view on a recovering NHS: public confidence has risen, but not enough | Editorial
Wes Streeting pronounced the UK’s health system ‘broken’. An upbeat survey does not mean that it is fixed For the government, news that public satisfaction with the NHS has increased for the first time since 2019 came as a huge relief. After 20 difficult months in office, ministers can point to proof that one public service at least is getting better, in spite of doctors’ strikes. The annual survey also found that the proportion of people who are dissatisfied with social care provided by council
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Express Politics26 Mar 2026
Rachel Reeves is desperate to blame Iran or Donald Trump - but she destroyed our economy
Today's OECD forecast will mask Labour's homegrown woes - but with 33,000 hospitality businesses shut since the first budget, Tehran is not to blame.
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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026
Doctors waiting on asylum decisions can work in NHS as Home Office lifts ban
Rule change follows high court challenge brought by two doctors prevented from working in specialist fields Doctors who have been prevented from working in the NHS while they wait for asylum decisions are celebrating after the Home Office agreed to lift the ban. The changes come into force on Thursday. The changes to the immigration rules follow a high court challenge by two specialist doctors who had the relevant qualifications to work for the NHS but were prevented from taking up work. Doctors
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BBC Politics25 Mar 2026
NHS, bills and immigration: One constituency's election talking points
Six weeks from the Holyrood election, the BBC takes the temperature in one central Scotland constituency.
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