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Where Next for Long-Term Care?
‘Caps for rich home-owners’ does not have the same ring to it, but that is the policy we seem to be locked into now.
- Conservative Party
- Health, Education & Welfare
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Waiting for the New Era of Trade Negotiations to Begin
MPs are back from their summer holidays and demanding to know the government’s negotiating position on Brexit.
- Brexit
- Trade
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The Politics of the Labour Manifesto
At the outset of the 2017 election campaign there seemed to be a good chance that the Labour Party would be broken – possibly irreparably – on the anvil of nationalism.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Parliamentary Sovereignty and Brexit
In the absence of a written constitution, we rely on authoritative commentators to tell us what the rules are.
- Sovereignty
- Parliament
- Brexit
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English Votes for English Laws
The Conservatives have in effect become an English sovereigntist party.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
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The Divided Tories
Coalition government at Westminster did not end in 2015: that much is now becoming apparent.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
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Hard Labour
There is something about the Labour Party that makes otherwise rigorous left-wing thinkers misplace their critical faculties.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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Social Policy Through the Looking Glass: How to Make Poor Households Poorer
How did we end up in this looking glass world, where policies are sold as a package when they will actually work in opposite directions?
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality