Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Tory headbangers set their sights on ‘slashing red tape’
The government is trying to use Brexit to rejuvenate its anti-regulation approach – but just how ‘independent’ are its supposedly independent new advisory reports, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
The Grenfell fire should stand as a warning that cuts to ‘red tape’ can lead to tragedy
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THERE is a small skirmish inside the government that should be made into a bigger conflict over “slashing red tape.”
Two “independent” reports commissioned by the government — that actually come from complete Tory headbangers — are recommending the government return to a crude, regulation-slashing measure called “one-in-two-out.”
Departments will be instructed to delete two old regulations for every new one they create.
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