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1/ We are facing a crisis of trust in politics. The latest sleaze scandal has supercharged it. But there is a way to rebuild. These are the key messages from our new research
@IPPR
with
@drjennings
@viktor888
@rachelstatham_
which is featured on the front page of
@ObserverUK
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Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!
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Having a working class, woman, who did not go to university (let alone an elite one) as Deputy PM is something to celebrate. What an inspiration to young people from less privileged backgrounds! Makes me proud of our country.
🚨 BREAKING: Angela Rayner has just gone into No 10 to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister
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🎉Personal News: Today is my first day as
@IPPR
’s new Director of Research and Engagement. It is such an exciting time for the progressive movement - and the stakes are so high! Super excited to work with our amazing team at IPPR in 2021 to collectively step up to the task.
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A bit of personal news! My wonderful colleagues
@carysroberts
and
@rachelstatham_
are going into No10 Policy Unit - huge congrats to both. 🎉🎉🎉 So I am stepping up as Interim Executive Director
@IPPR
at this hugely important moment for progressive politics.
Congratulations to
@carysroberts
&
@rachelstatham_
who have both been recruited into the Downing Street Policy Unit!
We're sad to see them go, but delighted to announce that
@harry_qp
has been appointed interim executive director.
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Some personal news: I am starting a new, exciting role
@IPPR
as Director of Politics and Policy. This will focus on shaping progressive politics in the U.K. at this really exciting political juncture! Very excited to get going. 🎉🎉🎉
This will be a key role in our senior management team.
Our Director of Research & Engagement
@harry_qp
will take up a new role of Director of Politics & Policy, leading our advocacy and an exciting new programme on progressive policy in the UK and abroad.
Watch this space!
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@BorisJohnson
just failed to tell the truth. He is not building 40 hospitals - it’s just 6! Meanwhile we have a maintenance backlog of over £6bn - that’s just basic repairs to make them warm, safe and clean.
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Spot on from
@graceblakeley
. Apparently May has ended austerity! Let’s ask pensioners who need social care, parents that need childcare, workers who need further education, kids who need youth clubs and libraries, and businesses who transport investment up north how that’s going?
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1/ Our new Prime Minister just confirmed that they will set up new mission boards to drive through the missions in government as
@IPPR
recommended earlier this year . Some thoughts on how to make these work.
Prime Minister
@Keir_Starmer
chaired his first Cabinet this morning.
He outlined the government’s mission to restore Britain to the service of working people.
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1/ The debate has now started about what Labour’s coalition want the government to deliver? Alongside
@SteveAkehurst
we
@IPPR
have just done a massive MRP poll to answer the question. A 🧵Spoiler: voters have given Labour the green light to be bold on the economy!
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One of the most sickening parts of our response to Covid-19 has been the ease with which past social ills have been addressed. For years we’ve heard we can’t afford it or it’s too difficult. Turns out that was bullshit designed to preserve the status quo.
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Delighted to hear our first female Chancellor set out her priorities for the new government
@RachelReevesMP
She starts by saying: “One day in government is better than a lifetime of opposition”
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Wonderful by
@jessphillips
- the case for honest hard working politics rather than sound bites and westminster
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Finland has twelve times less people than the UK. But they currently build more social housing than we do. Unsurprisingly their homelessness has been going down whilst ours shoots up. Me in the
@guardianopinion
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I didn’t even know my mum (Ruth) was on Twitter. But she replied to a tweet by
@annita_mcveigh
about Trump and the threat to democracy and it got read out on BBC news. 😂 Turns out my mum (with her 3 followers) has more cut through in the media than me and
@IPPR
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4/ All but two constituencies - one of which is Clacton - back the government being bolder on net zero!
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We
@IPPR
have just published our new blueprint for public service reform. We argue it will take a decade of renewal and reform to deliver high quality services, as well as more funding. I will tweet about it in more detail tomorrow. On the front page of the
@guardian
tomorrow.
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…
@Keir_Starmer
says he’s delighted to add 2024 to the very small number of Labour victories! He talks about his desire to lead a government of service and change in order to push back support for populism and distrust in politics.
@NewStatesman
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It is mad
@OwenJones84
@IPPR
research has been clear it is barely more expensive than cap proposals but is likely to come with more savings, more joined up care and is more popular with the public.
In order to get elected as Labour leader, Keir Starmer promised to introduce free social care.
Now one of his key Shadow Cabinet members has declared that it would be too expensive.
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1/ Today
@ippr
launched ‘Care fit for carers’. In it we find that 1 in 2 NHS and care workers have seen a deterioration in their mental health as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. They think it’s a bigger priority for govt than PPE.
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Wonderful to celebrate the launch of
@TorstenBell
’s new book (which I would
highly recommend). He will be a cracking MP and a huge brain in parliament. But very much missed by the think tank world.
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1/ Delighted that
@Keir_Starmer
will meet with Mayors on Tuesday - sends the right signal that we are living in a new era. Having spent a good chunk of the last few weeks interviewing the Mayors and their teams here are a few thoughts on what is needed!
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This graph shows that Finland now build more social housing than the U.K. They have a population of c.5 million compared to over 60 million in the U.K. This is why their homelessness has gone down whilst us has shot up!
@crisis_uk
@JKaakinen
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Excellent by
@OwenJones84
who brilliantly captures the anxiety that growing up gay involves and the feeling of excitement that discovering gay culture and art can engender. We need more of it to help the next generation because the battle is far from over!
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What does Keir Starmer mean by mission driven government? My new report and article in the
@FT
sets out how to reform Whitehall to deliver on missions. Spoiler: the biggest challenge is tackling “Treasury brain”!
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1/ Yesterday I hosted an
@IPPR
event with
@AngelaRayner
on representation in parliament. It was inspiring to hear her amazing story of becoming an MP and to her call for more working class people, women and people of colour to enter parliament.
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5/ A majority or plurality of voters in all constituencies back bolder action on worker rights. This should give Labour confidence to go for the ‘full fat’ version of the New Deal for Working People.
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“We run our health system hot every winter...In future we may have to think a bit more about resilience and a bit less about efficiency”. Absolutely spot on from
@anandMenon1
. And
@IPPR
has already done the work to set out what this might look like
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Just take that in for a minute. Johnson’s solution to the social care problem - the cap - might help as little as 30,000 people per year. There are 1.2 MILLION people with unmet care needs in this country! The cap isn’t the solution people!
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We need to talk about global vaccine inequality.
💉 High income countries.
Population: 16% of global total
Vaccine orders: 74 % of global total
That is a HUGE inequality.
💉 So far high income countries have 4.2 bn doses ordered compared to 675m in low income countries
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2/ 99 percent of Labour constituencies - 98 percent of Labour gains - have a majority or plurality who support higher borrowing to increase investment. A majority of voters overall support this.
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“You are not denying me a voice? Who cares if I have a voice? You are denying the 75,000 people in Wigan who I represent a voice”
@lisanandy
hits the nail on the head on the role of parliament in shaping the Brexit deal (or no-deal)
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1/ In his
@thetimes
column Rohan Silva argues that the UK should replace our NHS with a private insurance system. He is right to point out that the NHS needs to deliver better outcomes. But he is dead wrong to suggest a different funding/provider model will achieve this.
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1/ As
@Keir_Starmer
appoints his cabinet, read my latest
@NewStatesman
piece which tries to dissect the lessons from Michael Gove’s time in government for how to get things done. Lots of lessons here for new Labour Secretaries of State. 🧵
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1/ Lots to welcome - and ponder - in
@Keir_Starmer
’s speech on missions up in Manchester. My biggest takeaway: we may have a leader of a major political party that really gets the need for fundamental renewal in the U.K. (first since Blair or maybe even Thatcher). 🧵
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Excellent move by
@wesstreeting
to go to a GP surgery. For decades we’ve talked about the benefits of prevention and moving care out of hospital. And then put more money and staff into acutes while cutting the rest. Labour must buck that trend if it wants to fix the NHS.
Latest update from
@wesstreeting
& the DHSC
- first visit to a GP PRACTICE not hospital 😲
- interesting new wording on the health Mission
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Two years ago
@IPPR
launched our Commission on Health and Prosperity to argue that investing in health has an economic return. Back then it was a niche view.
@wesstreeting
has just put it right at the heart of his Dept. Watch out later this year for the final commission report.
Streeting says he wants to turn Department of Health into 'economic growth department' -
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I can’t believe how many days of work
@IPPR
have been disrupted with political coups, economic crises, policy u-turns and emergency budgets in recent years. Honestly, no wonder we have a productivity crisis in this country! Spare a thought for the think tankers!
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This is unbelievable. If companies want to benefit from our markets, labour & infrastructure they must pay their fair share of tax. And, if they don’t we should force them to using an ‘alternative minimum corporation tax’ as proposed by
@graceblakeley
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This strategy is directly taking from the Osborne playbook in 2010.
Rachel Reeves says she has commissioned a review of the state of public finances. Watch out for a number of these ‘inheritance reviews’. Labour want to highlight the mismanagement of the last government and set expectations for the scale of the challenge ahead.
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It’s obviously great that Leon and McDonalds (and others I am sure) are providing free/discounted food/drinks to NHS staff. But what about social care workers who are also on the frontline of the crisis?
#Corvid19uk
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Interesting conclusion from
@robfordmancs
“It is no longer a revolt on the right driving the Tory vote down in by-elections, it is a collapse in the centre.”
How did Labour do in last week's Chester by-election? I run through the numbers here:
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If, as expected, this is a gross exaggeration of the strategy announced by government tomorrow,
@BorisJohnson
must launch an immediate inquiry as to how these messages got into the press. Ministers who leaked should be sacked. This isn’t a game. It is life or death.
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1/ Usually have a lot of respect for
@Jeremy_Hunt
but this latest announcement is wrong headed. A short thread on why ramping up sanctions isn’t the answer to our employment challenges 🧵based on
@ippr
’s recent work.
'You're simply announcing a policy that is already in place because you think it's a crowd pleaser.'
@susannareid100
Jeremy Hunt says they 'do have the legal framework to impose those sanctions, the question is whether that actually happens.'
The Chancellor will later announce
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Of all the things that have happened in the last few years this has got to be one of the most outrageous and scary. The UK (thankfully) is not the US. But let’s be in no doubt: democracy in the West is under severe strain and urgently needs renewal and reform.
Watch
@robertmooreitv
's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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There are rumblings on the right about the need to cut spending.
That would be a MASSIVE mistake.
In the last 30 years across advanced countries:
💵 Debt has👆from 60 to 120 % of GDP
🧐 But interest rates have👇from 4 to 2 % of GDP
We need new fiscal rules not austerity 2.0
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The care home crisis is a national scandal. We must solve the social care funding crisis now. New
@IPPR
@Policy_Exchange
polling shows that there is emerging consensus: social care ‘free at the point of need’. Me and
@rcsloggett
in
@Telegraph
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So proud of
@IPPR
's Better Health and Care Programme for championing this vitally important issue - and
@pathwithanr
in particular who has absolutely nailed this just a few weeks into his
@IPPR
career. Thanks also our amazing partners
@Carnall_Farrar
and
@RunnymedeTrust
"The reasons why race and ethnicity are determinants of covid outcomes are societal, not genetic"
IPPR's
@pathwithanr
dispels the myths around the sharply higher Covid-19 risk among minority ethnic groups on
@Channel4News
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I remember the ‘tent cities’ in the US on the news in the US after the financial crisis. A
@guardian
@pgreenfielduk
@sloumarsh
investigation shows that they are now commonplace in the UK. Here is my take on how we solve this homelessness crisis:
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There is a narrative emerging that the NHS has managed covid-19 really well. But we need to be careful: it’s only survived by denying vital care for millions of patients with other conditions. We must ensure it is more resilient for next time.
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With M Le Pen about to challenge Macron for the Presidency in France, now is the perfect time to read our new paper
@IPPR
written by me and
@pathwithanr
which argues that mainstream parties - on left and right - are failing to respond properly to rising populism. A short 🧵1/
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1/
@Laurie_L_L
,
@n_treloar
and I have been investigating how movements make change. We wanted to find out what our organistions could do better as we confront todays challenges of climate breakdown, inequality and populism. We looked at four movements. Here is what we found…
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Lessons from
@jburnmurdoch
on the decline in support for the Conservatives that Labour might want to take note of:
1. There is a huge risk when votes are lent not committed
2. The risk of a very broad coalition is that you fail to deliver for any group
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So proud of our amazing
@IPPR
team especially our amazing events team Holly and Olivia who have done an amazing job! 🎉🎉🎉
And that's a wrap 🎬
Team IPPR are heading back to their offices around the UK after a fantastic
#LabourConference23
Thanks to everyone who joined us for such great discussions!
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Check me out on Sky News calling for social care free at they point of need.
@IPPR
More details can be found here:
A study by
@IPPR
reveals that free social care for over-65s would save the NHS "4.5bn" every year.
Senior Research Fellow
@harry_qp
hopes this report will urge the government to improve
#socialcare
in the UK.
#Sunrise
Read more about this study here:
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1/ The pandemic should propel the social-determinants of health into the mainstream of British politics. But I worry that yet again it will be ignored. Why has this movement - backed up by huge amounts of evidence
@MichaelMarmot
- struggled so much?
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So exciting when a policy you’ve been working on is announced. And such an important one as well!
The next Labour government will introduce personal care free at the point of use in England.
#Lab19
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Delighted to be launching a new Commission on Health and Prosperity today! As we emerge from the pandemic I can’t think of a better time to be thinking about how we make our society healthier, fairer and more prosperous.
Too many people are suffering a double injustice of bad health and limited livelihoods
Today we launch our Commission on Health and Prosperity to explore how improved health can be the keystone of a fairer, more prosperous society
#Health4Prosperity
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Rachel Reeves says she has commissioned a review of the state of public finances. Watch out for a number of these ‘inheritance reviews’. Labour want to highlight the mismanagement of the last government and set expectations for the scale of the challenge ahead.
The work of change has begun - and that starts with fixing the foundations. Watch my first speech as Chancellor on the action we are taking to deliver on the economy.
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@Samfr
Even if we found that social insurance systems are better (and most evidence suggests that they aren’t systemically better - some are and some aren’t) it’s unlikely the improvement would be worth the transition cost. We’d be better of sticking but funding/reforming better.
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I used to help run a homelessness charity and this is utter nonsense and desperately heartless. As i’ve written about before for
@guardianopinion
homelessness is a choice, but it’s the government’s.
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Here I am talking about why we need a long term funding plan for social care like we have for the NHS on
@BBCNews
@joswinson
@BorisJohnson
@jeremycorbyn
take note!
There are now over a million people who need social care but are not receiving it
IPPR's
@harry_qp
tells
@BBCNews
why we need a long term funding solution and workforce reform for
#socialcare
👉
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Delighted that
@UKLabour
@johnmcdonnellMP
have announced that they are backing
@IPPR
’s recommendation of free personal care. Policians have promised so much and delivered so little on social care. Hopefully this will be different.
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Cat kept trying to distract me from work. Eventually I gave in and continued in my efforts to teach her to high five ✋ 🎉
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3/ Every U.K constituency has more people in favour of house building than opposed, even if they get built in their area. Obviously won’t stop a vocal minority opposing Labour’s plans, but they should push through this carefully, but with confidence.
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1m people on furlough are in sectors that won’t recover from Covid-19. We must invest now in FE to retrain them - as part of a green recovery - to prevent mass unemployment when furlough ends. New
@ippr
research in the
@FT
@The_TUC
@CBItweets
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The reaction to this mention of patriotism highlights a divide between voters and bits of the left. Most voters are proud to be British. They won’t elect a party that is ashamed of it. Let’s have some nuance: we can be proud of UK, acknowledge it’s history and be internationalist
Whether you call it "patriotism" or not, it's important for the left to say: "We should be proud of our great traditions of people who fought at great cost and sacrifice for our rights and freedoms" and "What's more loving of your country than wanting to cure it of injustice?"
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Last week
@IPPR
we did polling that found that trust in politics is at an all time low. I’m just going to say: this isn’t going to help!
Exclusive: Downing Street staff shown joking in leaked recording about Christmas party they later denied
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I was on
@SkyNews
earlier talking about the risk COVID-19 poses to inequality amongst kids at school. We must put in place support now to help kids catch up and to make the home a safer place to be.
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If you have a mental health condition the NHS is not 'free at the point of need'. Even if the government meets its targets, 75% of adults and 65% of children with a mental health condition still receive no treatment. This is a scandal.
@IPPR
Read more:
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COVID-19 has exposed the fault lines at the heart of our care sector. Under-funding, exploited staff and precarious private provision. One thing is clear: we need reform now! My research w/
@graceblakeley
in
@thetimes
@IPPR
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Today we published our paper on preventing youth unemployment. Thanks for all the support of the Youth Employment Group especially
@ImpetusPEF
@EmploymtStudies
@tonywilsonIES
@SamanthaWindett
@YF_Foundation
@AnnaSmee1
@smwebster
@claremcneil1
@IPPR
🚨 NEW - Youth unemployment is set to more than double by the end of 2020. An increase of 620,000.
We can't let a whole generation see their prospects fade due to this crisis
A £3bn intervention is needed to create jobs and support young people ⤵️
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We are seeing increasing polarisation because our economic model has broken down: finance led growth is no-longer delivering. We need more radical economic change to share the gains of growth more equally.
@graceblakeley
is on the money with this (if you’ll forgive the pun)
Those who want to return to the 1990s refuse to acknowledge that Blair's political settlement was based on the illusory gains of finance-led growth.
After a decade of stagnation, politics is once again a question of who gets the gains from growth - and the centre has no answers.
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The recent budget was completely silent on health and care (despite being mid-pandemic). Our report out today argues that we need £12bn investment in health and social care to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.
@IPPR
@pathwithanr
@cthomasippr
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1/ 🧵on the (not so) mini-budget. I have been working in policy for about a decade now. I have never been as worried about a policy agenda or the direction our country is taking as I am today. I think it tells us that something is profoundly wrong with our democracy. Here is why!
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1/ Feels like there is a need for an injection of balance and analysis in the NHS privatisation debate. So this 🧵 is a stab at that.
Conclusion: There may be some merit to careful use of private capacity in the SHORT TERM but only a revitalised NHS will solve the problem.
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Amazing set of ex IPPR staff and fellows became MPs last night. Some real talent here! Congrats to all.
Thrilled for all the members of IPPR's family, past and present, who have been elected into Parliament for the first time!
Congratulations and good luck to:
- Luke Murphy
- Kirsty McNeill
- Miatta Fahnbulleh
- Luke Myer
- Chris Murray
- Yuan Yang
- Hamish Falconer
- Sarah Smith
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Delighted that Lord Ara Darzi - who we at
@IPPR
have worked with on health and care for the last decade - has been appointed to do this by
@wesstreeting
. I can’t think of anyone better. He will be thorough and honest in confronting the challenge - but also fair.
Our NHS is broken.
Today, I’ve asked Lord Darzi, an NHS surgeon for 30 years, to lead an independent investigation into the true state of the health service.
The findings will provide the basis for our 10-year plan to get the NHS back on its feet.
@thismorning
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It is the end of my first year as Director of Research at IPPR. What a year it’s been. Despite all of the challenges,
@IPPR
have been as impactful and prolific as ever. I am so proud of the team and the work they have done. Here are just a few of the highlights. 🎄🎄🎄
2021 is almost over! While unfortunately this year did not see the end of Covid-19, it was still a major year for public policy and politics
Before we head off for the festive season, here's a thread of IPPR research highlights from the year...
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Catch me on
@talkRADIO
with
@JuliaHB1
tomorrow morning at 8.30am to talk about the public health crisis facing us and why plain packaging for confectionary is part of the answer
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1/ This proposal from
@wesstreeting
to shift towards a different model in primary care - where GPs are salaried - warrants real consideration (though undoubtedly it will prove controversial with some). Here is why 🧵🧶
Labour will be consulting on phasing out the GP partnership model in favour of salaried GPs (and more of them), more ‘front doors’ to the NHS in primary care.
The current system is stretched to breaking point. We are thinking radically.
More here 👇🏻
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1/ Interesting. I’ve come to the opposite conclusion. These big trends are essentially an increase in societal risk. The question now is are these risks pooled/shared or faced by individuals? If we decide to pool risks then we will inevitably end up with a bigger state.
This age of permanent crisis – Covid, climate change, a new era of great power conflict – is going to demand a permanently smaller, nimbler state.
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We have seen a 'great risk shift' from the state/companies onto the heads of individuals. Nowhere is this more clear than the gig economy. In light of Coronavirus the government must now act to put in place social insurance.
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IPPR North Birthday! So exciting to bring together IPPR North’s past, present and future!
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1/ I have written about the ongoing debate - between what I call the ‘campaigners’ and the ‘technocrats’ - in the Labour Party on how it should govern if it wins a majority on July 4th
@NewStatesman
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For years campaigners have argued that we need to make universal credit faster to receive, more generous and easier to access. We were told it wasn’t possible. Why has it taken coronavirus for us to discover that is not the case?
#Budget2020
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P&O claimed over £10m in Furlough money and £4m in emergency support from the government during the pandemic. After their decision to dismiss hundreds of staff without warning the government must claim it back. The state should not prop up the profits of extractive businesses.
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The crisis has exposed a second pandemic: one of economic risk. Both businesses and govt have passed on risks to individuals over recent decades. As a result millions face devastation. We must act now to rebuild our social safety net. Me for
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