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• Jess Phillips: People would pay more tax for decent social care

  10-01-2020 16:27
  
  The Birmingham MP and Labour leadership hopeful puts social care high on her agenda and says ‘the public aren’t stupid, they know a service has to be paid for’ The Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips has argued that people may be prepared to pay more tax to get an NHS-style system that looks after the elderly and vulnerable.Phillips, whose campaign slogan is “speak truth to power”, said she stands ready to work with the Conservatives and other parties to solve
  
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• Radical Whitehall reform will do nothing to level up the UK's most deprived areas | Richard Vize

  10-01-2020 15:35
  
  To create truly great public services would require a massive power shift from London to local areas The obsessive focus of Boris Johnson’s advisers on shaking up Whitehall reinforces the failed belief that all the answers lie in better central government. If they really want the UK to be the most dynamic state in the world and to “level up” the most deprived areas, they need to devolve power away from London.There is good evidence that decentralised countries have stronger gro
  
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