Paul Corrigan Articles

The Conservative manifesto is full of promises on health that only government can deliver – and they have their excuses at the ready if they fail to, argues Paul Corrigan Famously, the prime minister likes to tightly control things. Less famously, when she was home...

With 100 days to go before election day, the Labour party’s decision to place the NHS centre stage in its campaign means that both its critique of the current government and its policies for the future will get 100 days of close scrutiny. The Labour party are correct...

For a Labour leadership that wants the NHS to be the most important electoral issue, the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View plan today is a potentially really important moment. This document contains the hopes and aspirations of the leadership of all the...

In the second general election of 1974 Harold Wilson won an overall majority of three. This was the last time a Labour leader who was not called Tony Blair won a majority in the House of Commons. Forty years … it is a long time. But it’s true that in the eight general...