joan ruddock Articles

Is it shortsighted and parochial to campaign to save local hospital services? This was the theme of a radio interview I listened to last week with Joan Ruddock and Ara Darzi. Darzi was arguing that politicians can be too defensive and parochial in their health...

Who won? Following the announcement from the Ministry of Defence that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, after an explosion hit an armoured vehicle in Afghanistan, today’s PMQs had a sombre mood. There was a notable absence of Tory backbenchers’...

And so it came round again- the prime minister opened what turned out to be quite a ‘boring’ session with the customary tributes to those armed forces personnel who have died since the House last sat back in December. The exchanges between Ed Miliband and David...