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Pat McFadden MP Articles

The government has put the public at needless risk

This month the government will release from anti-terror controls six suspects who have been identified by the independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, as being ‘at the highest end of seriousness, even by standards of international...

What kind of country do we want to be?

In the run-up to the lifting of restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants at the start of this year Britain's immigration debate reached a new level of panic. This culminated in dozens of journalists – and a few politicians – gathering in Luton airport to meet...

Avoiding a deeper tragedy

There we were on the Treasury select committee, doing an inquiry into the collapse of the Co-op Bank, just as had been done into Northern Rock and RBS. Chief executives past and present trooped in. They gave their versions of the takeover of the Britannia building...

Power to the producers: the loss of walk-in centres

Today’s review of emergency care in the NHS takes place against the backdrop of increasing pressure on A&E departments and renewed speculation about an NHS 'winter crisis' – a feature of the NHS in the past which Labour managed to eliminate in office. Another...