Yvette Cooper and her new ministerial team now officially have a foot in the door, and can stake their claim on the new Burnham agenda. The appointment of Alison McGovern as Minister for Social Care ...

With all eyes on Makerfield, and Andy Burnham’s projected (as per recent polling) election to Parliament, former Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been trying his hardest to get the spotlight back on him; a task ...

Last week, the elections dominated proceedings, and this week, focus will centre on the crucial King’s Speech, a chance for Starmer to swing the seemingly insurmountable tsunami of pressure he faces currently. As this blog ...

For the 15th time since March 2023, the resident doctors went on strike following the Easter break, bringing the cumulative cost of the dispute, according to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, to an estimated £3bn. The ...

In previous years, the Spring Statement would dominate the political discourse, acting as the sister to the Autumn Budget and providing a focal point to direct public policy and opposition criticism. However, with Chancellor Reeves’ ...

Following the explosive fallout over resident doctors’ pay and job conditions towards the end of 2025, Wes Streeting set out that the Government would introduce emergency legislation, now titled the Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill, to ...

The end of 2025 saw the latest resident doctors’ strike, stemming from a long-term dispute over pay, conditions, and job opportunities. Wes Streeting has not been subtle in his disagreements with the BMA over the ...

At the end of November, the UK awaited the Autumn Budget, a monumental annual event set to define the now annual fiscal period and forthcoming policy decisions. Described as ‘chaotic’ by many journalists and potentially ...

As Labour continues to slide in most polls, tensions between Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association (BMA) continue to surge. Most recently, the BMA rejected another ...

The last month brought the annual rendition of party conferences and it wouldn’t be controversial to say that health took a back seat this year, in the wake of wide-spread political discourse on immigration, free ...

Written by Aidan Stansbury and Billy Barham, Vuelio Political Team.  The Liberal Democrat Conference saw no halt in Sir Ed Davey’s relentless bombardment of the right wing of politics. In fact, it reinvigorated his arguments, ...

Labour has placed fixing the ‘broken’ NHS at the core of its pre- and post-election political messaging, connecting this milestone intrinsically in its mandate; failure to improve the state of the NHS and the wider ...

On Thursday, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting published the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England. Predicated by the Lord Darzi report published in September, the Plan sets out to ...