Plans to ban foreign nationals from social housing under a Conservative government have been condemned as “divisive”. Under proposals revealed on Friday, the party said about 230,000 homes would become available if foreign nationals were prevented from accessing social housing. Ending new tenancies for all foreign nationals, as well as current tenancies for couples where…
A few days after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that migrants who swim into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of northern Africa cannot be summarily returned to Morocco, nearly 60,000 people converged on Ceuta on Friday last week, hoping to make their way to Europe. On July 29, the Spanish court…
Since Truth API was announced, some have raised the potential for insider trading to occur. The practice, which is illegal, involves people making market trades or bets based on information that is not available to the general public. Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer to President George W Bush, told the BBC even if Trump…
Twenty-week-old Grayson easily could have become one of the tens of thousands of British babies left unvaccinated against polio. His mother, Lily, agrees with the principle of immunisation. But overwhelmed by the early weeks of motherhood, and suffering from post-partum depression after a traumatic birth, she was daunted by the prospect of a long journey…
Josh Kerr didn’t get much sleep last night. “There’s no time for that. Glasgow on the weekend, mate, it’s bouncing,” the Scot said with a slight croak in his voice. The response – 11 hours after his Commonwealth Games mile victory – was entirely in keeping with the way Kerr has conducted himself this week….
I write as someone whose disabilities mean that I will be in receipt of social care support my whole life (Andy Burnham seeks cross-party agreement on future of social care, 27 July). For too long, people like me have been cannon fodder for politicians who routinely forget that their highest duty in providing social care…
“People pleaser!” That’s the insult Andy Burnham’s enemies sneer at him. And yes, he will need all his mightiest people-pleasing talents to win over voters to contribute to a new national care service. Choosing this forever failed policy (22 major reviews over three decades) as his first great challenge is a remarkable act of bravery….
Emma Riley has been caring for her mother Carol, who has dementia, since she lost her father 18 months ago. “She’s a cracking lady, still with a sense of humour but she’s living with this awful condition,” said Riley, from Manchester. She is paying £34 an hour for a care company to come to the…
Burnham first proposed a universal system of social care in England in 2009, when he was health secretary under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He suggested a compulsory levy to fund the system and Brown’s government also floated the idea of allowing people to defer the payment until after they died, leading to the Tories…
Last week Badenoch wrote to the prime minister saying he should rule out tax rises or increased borrowing to fund social care reform. A Conservative spokesman said Andrew would attend in Badenoch’s place and was ready to work with Labour on measures that improved social care – provided they were not reliant on tax rises…
