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Director of Policy and Politics @IPPR . Interested in politics, political economy & progressive change. Views are my own
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1/ We are facing a crisis of trust in politics. The latest sleaze scandal has supercharged it. But there is a way to rebuild. These are the key messages from our new research
@IPPR
with
@drjennings
@viktor888
@rachelstatham_
which is featured on the front page of
@ObserverUK
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Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!
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🎉Personal News: Today is my first day as
@IPPR
’s new Director of Research and Engagement. It is such an exciting time for the progressive movement - and the stakes are so high! Super excited to work with our amazing team at IPPR in 2021 to collectively step up to the task.
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Some personal news: I am starting a new, exciting role
@IPPR
as Director of Politics and Policy. This will focus on shaping progressive politics in the U.K. at this really exciting political juncture! Very excited to get going. 🎉🎉🎉
This will be a key role in our senior management team.
Our Director of Research & Engagement
@harry_qp
will take up a new role of Director of Politics & Policy, leading our advocacy and an exciting new programme on progressive policy in the UK and abroad.
Watch this space!
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@BorisJohnson
just failed to tell the truth. He is not building 40 hospitals - it’s just 6! Meanwhile we have a maintenance backlog of over £6bn - that’s just basic repairs to make them warm, safe and clean.
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Spot on from
@graceblakeley
. Apparently May has ended austerity! Let’s ask pensioners who need social care, parents that need childcare, workers who need further education, kids who need youth clubs and libraries, and businesses who transport investment up north how that’s going?
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One of the most sickening parts of our response to Covid-19 has been the ease with which past social ills have been addressed. For years we’ve heard we can’t afford it or it’s too difficult. Turns out that was bullshit designed to preserve the status quo.
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Wonderful by
@jessphillips
- the case for honest hard working politics rather than sound bites and westminster
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Finland has twelve times less people than the UK. But they currently build more social housing than we do. Unsurprisingly their homelessness has been going down whilst ours shoots up. Me in the
@guardianopinion
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I didn’t even know my mum (Ruth) was on Twitter. But she replied to a tweet by
@annita_mcveigh
about Trump and the threat to democracy and it got read out on BBC news. 😂 Turns out my mum (with her 3 followers) has more cut through in the media than me and
@IPPR
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We
@IPPR
have just published our new blueprint for public service reform. We argue it will take a decade of renewal and reform to deliver high quality services, as well as more funding. I will tweet about it in more detail tomorrow. On the front page of the
@guardian
tomorrow.
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It is mad
@OwenJones84
@IPPR
research has been clear it is barely more expensive than cap proposals but is likely to come with more savings, more joined up care and is more popular with the public.
In order to get elected as Labour leader, Keir Starmer promised to introduce free social care.
Now one of his key Shadow Cabinet members has declared that it would be too expensive.
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1/ Today
@ippr
launched ‘Care fit for carers’. In it we find that 1 in 2 NHS and care workers have seen a deterioration in their mental health as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. They think it’s a bigger priority for govt than PPE.
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This graph shows that Finland now build more social housing than the U.K. They have a population of c.5 million compared to over 60 million in the U.K. This is why their homelessness has gone down whilst us has shot up!
@crisis_uk
@JKaakinen
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Excellent by
@OwenJones84
who brilliantly captures the anxiety that growing up gay involves and the feeling of excitement that discovering gay culture and art can engender. We need more of it to help the next generation because the battle is far from over!
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What does Keir Starmer mean by mission driven government? My new report and article in the
@FT
sets out how to reform Whitehall to deliver on missions. Spoiler: the biggest challenge is tackling “Treasury brain”!
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1/ Yesterday I hosted an
@IPPR
event with
@AngelaRayner
on representation in parliament. It was inspiring to hear her amazing story of becoming an MP and to her call for more working class people, women and people of colour to enter parliament.
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Just take that in for a minute. Johnson’s solution to the social care problem - the cap - might help as little as 30,000 people per year. There are 1.2 MILLION people with unmet care needs in this country! The cap isn’t the solution people!
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We need to talk about global vaccine inequality.
💉 High income countries.
Population: 16% of global total
Vaccine orders: 74 % of global total
That is a HUGE inequality.
💉 So far high income countries have 4.2 bn doses ordered compared to 675m in low income countries
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“We run our health system hot every winter...In future we may have to think a bit more about resilience and a bit less about efficiency”. Absolutely spot on from
@anandMenon1
. And
@IPPR
has already done the work to set out what this might look like
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“You are not denying me a voice? Who cares if I have a voice? You are denying the 75,000 people in Wigan who I represent a voice”
@lisanandy
hits the nail on the head on the role of parliament in shaping the Brexit deal (or no-deal)
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1/ In his
@thetimes
column Rohan Silva argues that the UK should replace our NHS with a private insurance system. He is right to point out that the NHS needs to deliver better outcomes. But he is dead wrong to suggest a different funding/provider model will achieve this.
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1/ Lots to welcome - and ponder - in
@Keir_Starmer
’s speech on missions up in Manchester. My biggest takeaway: we may have a leader of a major political party that really gets the need for fundamental renewal in the U.K. (first since Blair or maybe even Thatcher). 🧵
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I can’t believe how many days of work
@IPPR
have been disrupted with political coups, economic crises, policy u-turns and emergency budgets in recent years. Honestly, no wonder we have a productivity crisis in this country! Spare a thought for the think tankers!
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It’s obviously great that Leon and McDonalds (and others I am sure) are providing free/discounted food/drinks to NHS staff. But what about social care workers who are also on the frontline of the crisis?
#Corvid19uk
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This is unbelievable. If companies want to benefit from our markets, labour & infrastructure they must pay their fair share of tax. And, if they don’t we should force them to using an ‘alternative minimum corporation tax’ as proposed by
@graceblakeley
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Interesting conclusion from
@robfordmancs
“It is no longer a revolt on the right driving the Tory vote down in by-elections, it is a collapse in the centre.”
How did Labour do in last week's Chester by-election? I run through the numbers here:
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If, as expected, this is a gross exaggeration of the strategy announced by government tomorrow,
@BorisJohnson
must launch an immediate inquiry as to how these messages got into the press. Ministers who leaked should be sacked. This isn’t a game. It is life or death.
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1/ Usually have a lot of respect for
@Jeremy_Hunt
but this latest announcement is wrong headed. A short thread on why ramping up sanctions isn’t the answer to our employment challenges 🧵based on
@ippr
’s recent work.
'You're simply announcing a policy that is already in place because you think it's a crowd pleaser.'
@susannareid100
Jeremy Hunt says they 'do have the legal framework to impose those sanctions, the question is whether that actually happens.'
The Chancellor will later announce
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Of all the things that have happened in the last few years this has got to be one of the most outrageous and scary. The UK (thankfully) is not the US. But let’s be in no doubt: democracy in the West is under severe strain and urgently needs renewal and reform.
Watch
@robertmooreitv
's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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The care home crisis is a national scandal. We must solve the social care funding crisis now. New
@IPPR
@Policy_Exchange
polling shows that there is emerging consensus: social care ‘free at the point of need’. Me and
@rcsloggett
in
@Telegraph
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There are rumblings on the right about the need to cut spending.
That would be a MASSIVE mistake.
In the last 30 years across advanced countries:
💵 Debt has👆from 60 to 120 % of GDP
🧐 But interest rates have👇from 4 to 2 % of GDP
We need new fiscal rules not austerity 2.0
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So proud of
@IPPR
's Better Health and Care Programme for championing this vitally important issue - and
@pathwithanr
in particular who has absolutely nailed this just a few weeks into his
@IPPR
career. Thanks also our amazing partners
@Carnall_Farrar
and
@RunnymedeTrust
"The reasons why race and ethnicity are determinants of covid outcomes are societal, not genetic"
IPPR's
@pathwithanr
dispels the myths around the sharply higher Covid-19 risk among minority ethnic groups on
@Channel4News
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I remember the ‘tent cities’ in the US on the news in the US after the financial crisis. A
@guardian
@pgreenfielduk
@sloumarsh
investigation shows that they are now commonplace in the UK. Here is my take on how we solve this homelessness crisis:
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There is a narrative emerging that the NHS has managed covid-19 really well. But we need to be careful: it’s only survived by denying vital care for millions of patients with other conditions. We must ensure it is more resilient for next time.
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With M Le Pen about to challenge Macron for the Presidency in France, now is the perfect time to read our new paper
@IPPR
written by me and
@pathwithanr
which argues that mainstream parties - on left and right - are failing to respond properly to rising populism. A short 🧵1/
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So proud of our amazing
@IPPR
team especially our amazing events team Holly and Olivia who have done an amazing job! 🎉🎉🎉
And that's a wrap 🎬
Team IPPR are heading back to their offices around the UK after a fantastic
#LabourConference23
Thanks to everyone who joined us for such great discussions!
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Check me out on Sky News calling for social care free at they point of need.
@IPPR
More details can be found here:
A study by
@IPPR
reveals that free social care for over-65s would save the NHS "4.5bn" every year.
Senior Research Fellow
@harry_qp
hopes this report will urge the government to improve
#socialcare
in the UK.
#Sunrise
Read more about this study here:
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1/ The pandemic should propel the social-determinants of health into the mainstream of British politics. But I worry that yet again it will be ignored. Why has this movement - backed up by huge amounts of evidence
@MichaelMarmot
- struggled so much?
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1/
@Laurie_L_L
,
@n_treloar
and I have been investigating how movements make change. We wanted to find out what our organistions could do better as we confront todays challenges of climate breakdown, inequality and populism. We looked at four movements. Here is what we found…
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I used to help run a homelessness charity and this is utter nonsense and desperately heartless. As i’ve written about before for
@guardianopinion
homelessness is a choice, but it’s the government’s.
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So exciting when a policy you’ve been working on is announced. And such an important one as well!
The next Labour government will introduce personal care free at the point of use in England.
#Lab19
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Delighted to be launching a new Commission on Health and Prosperity today! As we emerge from the pandemic I can’t think of a better time to be thinking about how we make our society healthier, fairer and more prosperous.
Too many people are suffering a double injustice of bad health and limited livelihoods
Today we launch our Commission on Health and Prosperity to explore how improved health can be the keystone of a fairer, more prosperous society
#Health4Prosperity
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Delighted that
@UKLabour
@johnmcdonnellMP
have announced that they are backing
@IPPR
’s recommendation of free personal care. Policians have promised so much and delivered so little on social care. Hopefully this will be different.
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@Samfr
Even if we found that social insurance systems are better (and most evidence suggests that they aren’t systemically better - some are and some aren’t) it’s unlikely the improvement would be worth the transition cost. We’d be better of sticking but funding/reforming better.
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Here I am talking about why we need a long term funding plan for social care like we have for the NHS on
@BBCNews
@joswinson
@BorisJohnson
@jeremycorbyn
take note!
There are now over a million people who need social care but are not receiving it
IPPR's
@harry_qp
tells
@BBCNews
why we need a long term funding solution and workforce reform for
#socialcare
👉
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1m people on furlough are in sectors that won’t recover from Covid-19. We must invest now in FE to retrain them - as part of a green recovery - to prevent mass unemployment when furlough ends. New
@ippr
research in the
@FT
@The_TUC
@CBItweets
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Cat kept trying to distract me from work. Eventually I gave in and continued in my efforts to teach her to high five ✋ 🎉
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Last week
@IPPR
we did polling that found that trust in politics is at an all time low. I’m just going to say: this isn’t going to help!
Exclusive: Downing Street staff shown joking in leaked recording about Christmas party they later denied
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The reaction to this mention of patriotism highlights a divide between voters and bits of the left. Most voters are proud to be British. They won’t elect a party that is ashamed of it. Let’s have some nuance: we can be proud of UK, acknowledge it’s history and be internationalist
Whether you call it "patriotism" or not, it's important for the left to say: "We should be proud of our great traditions of people who fought at great cost and sacrifice for our rights and freedoms" and "What's more loving of your country than wanting to cure it of injustice?"
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COVID-19 has exposed the fault lines at the heart of our care sector. Under-funding, exploited staff and precarious private provision. One thing is clear: we need reform now! My research w/
@graceblakeley
in
@thetimes
@IPPR
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If you have a mental health condition the NHS is not 'free at the point of need'. Even if the government meets its targets, 75% of adults and 65% of children with a mental health condition still receive no treatment. This is a scandal.
@IPPR
Read more:
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We are seeing increasing polarisation because our economic model has broken down: finance led growth is no-longer delivering. We need more radical economic change to share the gains of growth more equally.
@graceblakeley
is on the money with this (if you’ll forgive the pun)
Those who want to return to the 1990s refuse to acknowledge that Blair's political settlement was based on the illusory gains of finance-led growth.
After a decade of stagnation, politics is once again a question of who gets the gains from growth - and the centre has no answers.
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Today we published our paper on preventing youth unemployment. Thanks for all the support of the Youth Employment Group especially
@ImpetusPEF
@EmploymtStudies
@tonywilsonIES
@SamanthaWindett
@YF_Foundation
@AnnaSmee1
@smwebster
@claremcneil1
@IPPR
🚨 NEW - Youth unemployment is set to more than double by the end of 2020. An increase of 620,000.
We can't let a whole generation see their prospects fade due to this crisis
A £3bn intervention is needed to create jobs and support young people ⤵️
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I was on
@SkyNews
earlier talking about the risk COVID-19 poses to inequality amongst kids at school. We must put in place support now to help kids catch up and to make the home a safer place to be.
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Catch me on
@talkRADIO
with
@JuliaHB1
tomorrow morning at 8.30am to talk about the public health crisis facing us and why plain packaging for confectionary is part of the answer
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1/ 🧵on the (not so) mini-budget. I have been working in policy for about a decade now. I have never been as worried about a policy agenda or the direction our country is taking as I am today. I think it tells us that something is profoundly wrong with our democracy. Here is why!
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The recent budget was completely silent on health and care (despite being mid-pandemic). Our report out today argues that we need £12bn investment in health and social care to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.
@IPPR
@pathwithanr
@cthomasippr
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1/ Feels like there is a need for an injection of balance and analysis in the NHS privatisation debate. So this 🧵 is a stab at that.
Conclusion: There may be some merit to careful use of private capacity in the SHORT TERM but only a revitalised NHS will solve the problem.
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1/ Interesting. I’ve come to the opposite conclusion. These big trends are essentially an increase in societal risk. The question now is are these risks pooled/shared or faced by individuals? If we decide to pool risks then we will inevitably end up with a bigger state.
This age of permanent crisis – Covid, climate change, a new era of great power conflict – is going to demand a permanently smaller, nimbler state.
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IPPR North Birthday! So exciting to bring together IPPR North’s past, present and future!
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It is the end of my first year as Director of Research at IPPR. What a year it’s been. Despite all of the challenges,
@IPPR
have been as impactful and prolific as ever. I am so proud of the team and the work they have done. Here are just a few of the highlights. 🎄🎄🎄
2021 is almost over! While unfortunately this year did not see the end of Covid-19, it was still a major year for public policy and politics
Before we head off for the festive season, here's a thread of IPPR research highlights from the year...
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For years campaigners have argued that we need to make universal credit faster to receive, more generous and easier to access. We were told it wasn’t possible. Why has it taken coronavirus for us to discover that is not the case?
#Budget2020
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We have seen a 'great risk shift' from the state/companies onto the heads of individuals. Nowhere is this more clear than the gig economy. In light of Coronavirus the government must now act to put in place social insurance.
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1/ This proposal from
@wesstreeting
to shift towards a different model in primary care - where GPs are salaried - warrants real consideration (though undoubtedly it will prove controversial with some). Here is why 🧵🧶
Labour will be consulting on phasing out the GP partnership model in favour of salaried GPs (and more of them), more ‘front doors’ to the NHS in primary care.
The current system is stretched to breaking point. We are thinking radically.
More here 👇🏻
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Amazing that
@UKLabour
have backed
@ippr
’s call for free personal care for all. Now we must think about how to radically reform the system.
@graceblakeley
and I have written about how we combat the financialisation of care.
#PeopleBeforeProfits
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This makes me angry! Who cares if they don’t improve results? How have we warped our education system so much that this is the measure of value and success?
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It is time to simply ban paid second jobs for MPs. The public see this type of ‘extracurricular’ activity as completely out of bounds and it undermines faith in politics which as
@IPPR
has shown is in free-fall
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The crisis has exposed a second pandemic: one of economic risk. Both businesses and govt have passed on risks to individuals over recent decades. As a result millions face devastation. We must act now to rebuild our social safety net. Me for
@VersoBooks
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P&O claimed over £10m in Furlough money and £4m in emergency support from the government during the pandemic. After their decision to dismiss hundreds of staff without warning the government must claim it back. The state should not prop up the profits of extractive businesses.
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The pandemic has had all sorts of impacts on our society. Few are more worrying than the damage it has done to young people and learning. Despite this the government have yet to commit anything like the resource needed to address the problem. This should be a national mission!
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Politicians would do well to take an oath - just like doctors - and commit to ‘do no harm’.
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I’ve written for the
@Telegraph
about the governments “skills for jobs” white paper. Headline: good start but needs long term funding and also proper stimulus so people have jobs to skills up for!
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.The
@FinancialTimes
suggesting that
@RishiSunak
will take heed of
@IPPR
’s recommendations today to subsidize the wages of young people in the form of a Jobs Fund. Let’s hope this right 👏 👏
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Delighted to be hosting
@IPPR
alumnus
@DMiliband
today to discuss the upcoming general election and the lessons Labour can (and what they should not) take from 1997.
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It was such a pleasure to come on
@CheerfulPodcast
. Thanks
@Ed_Miliband
and
@GeoffLloyd
. Such an important issue to discuss!
New episode! Is it time to extend the principles of the NHS to social care for older people? We discuss universal free personal care with Joyce Yendole, historian Pat Thane & IPPR’s
@harry_qp
. PLUS comedian
@lulu_popplewell
Listen now 👉
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@ShaunLintern
@axelheitmueller
@Silva
Totally agree Shaun. People focus on the current level of spending and say money isn’t the problem. What they forget that it is sustained spending levels with stability over time that allows you to build capacity - this is more intuitive with capital spend but is true of revenue.
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The private sector vs public sector narrative the chancellor is championing is very damaging. 1/ comparison is warped by the plethora of low pay low skill jobs in private sector - the solution is a bigger minimum wage rise (so it’s actually a living wage)
#SpendingReview
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So proud of
@IPPR
Better Health and Care Programme. This is an important intervention. Hope
@BorisJohnson
and
@MattHancock
are listening! Thanks in particular to
@pathwithanr
@cthomasippr
@Carnall_Farrar
@BenRichardson49
@DavidWastell
@harveyrobin
@AbiFaro
@RichJMaclean
🚨 MAJOR REPORT 🚨
@IPPR
puts forward a £12 billion blueprint to Build Back Better health and care
It is the booster shot the NHS and social care needs to be fit for the future. A thread
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So great to have
@AngelaRayner
and
@LouHaigh
join me to discuss
@IPPR
’s work on working class representation in parliament. This is such an important topic which impacts trust in democracy and also the policies that get debated and implemented. Read more:
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Over half of schools do not have an on-site counsellor. The poorer the catchment the less likely they are to have one. In the wake of the pandemic this is a huge problem. Coverage of
@IPPR
@bigchange_
research on
@BBCNews
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Let’s ask cancer patients whether the NHS has coped well with Covid-19. Me for
@Independent
“All cancer surgery has been cancelled...With surgery I have a 70-80 percent chance of making a full recovery. Without it, I will die”
@IPPR
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3/ We need to call out the Sirens luring us towards funding model reform. Instead of shifting models at enormous cost and disruption - and against the democratic will of the people - what we need is adequate long term funding and fundamental reform to drive better outcomes.
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So exciting to be hosting
@AngelaRayner
to celebrate IPPR North’s birthday. Making the case for more devolution, more power and more prosperity in the North.
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2/ Why? Because as the OECD has said “There is no health care system that performs systematically better in delivering cost-effective health care”. They say “In other words, big-bang reforms are not warranted.” And countries should instead build on their existing model.
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So proud that the Chair of
@IPPR
’s Better Health and Care Programme is out on the front line doing his bit!
#COVID
ー19 At IPPR we will be publishing our work on how we support frontline staff through this crisis in the next week or so. Watch this space!
@cthomashealth
Great to see Lord Darzi trained and in action on our ICU turning team at St Mary’s!
#leadingbyexample
#livingthevalues
@Imperialpeople
@ImperialNHS
Thank you Ara!
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I spoke on
@talkRADIO
earlier about this. I argued it would be a disastrous policy. Instead of leveling down key worker wages the government should be aiming to level up pay for low paid private sector workers. This is not just morally right - but economically sensible as well.
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This is not a good look when so many people in this country - me included - are now paying higher mortgages as a result!
Liz Truss mobbed by supporters - and even signs a copy of the Growth Plan (ie mini-budget) for one.
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Double page spread in the
@DailyMailUK
on
@IPPR
’s new report on preventing ill-health with op-ed from Lord Darzi.
@TomKibasi
@Dhochlaf
Report can be found here:
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