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Welcome to... The Department for Transport
14 October 2013
In Maria Eagle’s hands, transport has become a battleground policy area in the run-up to 2015. As her successor Mary Creagh takes over as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, London-based civil servants and MPs opening postbags in the...
Continue ReadingWhy plain packaging can't go up in smoke
11 October 2013
In July this year, the government dismayed medical professionals and the wider public health community by refusing to bring in legislation to require the standardised packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products. In a written statement sneaked out on the last...
Continue ReadingFive things we learned this week
11 October 2013
Westminster was all ahoo as all the three main political parties shuffled their ministerial pack. Who's up? Who's down? Who's out? And what did we learn? In the first of a new weekly series, Richard Speight looks back at the 5...
Continue ReadingWelcome to... DWP
11 October 2013
Taking on the work and pensions brief should be the dream job for a senior Labour politician. DWP is the largest spending department, a symbol of the cradle-to-grave welfare state; and it is pivotal to two central Labour issues: inequality...
Continue ReadingWelcome to... The Ministry of Defence
10 October 2013
There is something about defence which robs David Cameron of his surety of touch. Whether it’s over negotiating defence cuts with a party seething at the scale of reductions made to the defence establishment and redundancies of servicemen and women; through...
Continue ReadingWelcome to... The Northern Ireland office
10 October 2013
Northern Ireland, as well as being an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, is a place that stirs up all manner of emotions in many of us. Cast-iron preconceptions of its politics and culture are common among those who have...
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