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Month: November 2016 Articles

A way forward on refugees

'We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come' – a great quote for the alt-right, in an era of Donald Trump and Brexit one could be forgiven into thinking this came from either side of the Atlantic in 2016. But this quote did not,...

Verdict: Dreadful

Alison McGovern has five things you need to know about the autumn statement and what it means for Brexit Britain ‘One cannot stress enough how dreadful this is’. That was the verdict of Paul Johnson, head of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies on the dire...

The darkest moment of a parent’s life

Tonight in an adjournment debate I am going to bear my soul on the single most tragic event in my life and the life of any mother. I am doing so to shed light on a problem that exists just beneath the surface. It is not talked about for fear of offending or upsetting....

Dignity in their final years

While expectations were already low for this year’s autumn statement, the conventional wisdom was that the chancellor would have at least have to do something for social care. After all, the government’s own regulator of care services, the Care Quality Commission, had...