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• New year, new Keir? Labour have big plans for 2025 - including taking inspiration from Thatcher

  04-01-2025 20:32
  
  The party’s manifesto promised big policy reforms. Now, with his popularity in freefall, the prime minister must deliver to change the political narrativeAs the popularity of his government has nosedived in recent weeks, Keir Starmer has turned up the heat on his cabinet ministers. Since early last month, individual secretaries of state have been summoned by the prime minister to attend 90-minute, one-to-one interrogations to check on their work, department by department.Starmer’s of
  
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• Trump promised to shut down the education department. Is it possible?

  04-01-2025 14:00
  
  President-elect said he would give states the power to control education, but it would be extremely difficultDonald Trump issued a bold campaign promise to his voters: he would eliminate the US Department of Education and give states all power to control education.He didn’t lay out how he could get rid of the cabinet-level agency, but he alone cannot eliminate a department, making it an extremely difficult task to accomplish. Congress is requested to approve the creation or demise of an ag
  
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