The Downtown Den Politics Podcast | EP.80 | Have Labour gone from woke to Reform?
17/03/2025
NHS reform, welfare reform, MIPIM and Adolescence.
NHS reform, welfare reform, MIPIM and Adolescence.
This week Jo discusses the fear of privatising the health service, but points out that in some cases it already is.
Bruntwood SciTech has announced the topping out of its innovative lab and workspace, Citylabs 4.0 (the latest addition to the Citylabs health innovation campus run in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust).
An Event held on Wednesday 19th June, attended by partners, contractors and customers, celebrated this key milestone for the market-leading science and technology project.
Off the back of Wes Streeting’s interview on ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, where he said “on social care [he] would have wanted [Labour’s] manifesto to be more ambitious”, Jo Henney, CEO of Nugent, a charity dedicated to caring for, educating, and protecting vulnerable children, young people and adults through schools, care homes, and community and social work services, shares her response and thoughts on the future of Social care.
Jim looks forward to more difficult by elections for the government and fears for the green agenda after last week’s contests.
Is the reporting of the sexually deviant behaviour of a BBC employee really ‘in the public interest’?
Brexit isn’t working. Frank McKenna’s latest Downtown blog.
Why is the Tory leadership race dominated by an arms race on tax cuts? Jim argues that the candidates should be talking about reform of our collapsing public services. He also celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot.
Heresy? Frank McKenna argues that the NHS needs radical reform more than it needs cash – and that this week’s tax hike will not improve social care as promised.
Ryan Wain from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change discusses how the way beyond Covid isn’t a binary choice between lockdowns and ‘freedom day’, there is infact a third way.
This week Jim calls for more plain speaking from the government and looks at the grim prospects facing our pubs and restaurants.
The government is unable to give business a clear back to work strategy because of the lack of testing, Jim claims in his latest blog. He also takes a close look at the North West Labour MPs in Keir Starmer’s new team.