Back in May last year, Keir Starmer and members of the then Shadow Cabinet launched the Labour Party’s ‘Steps for Change’, outlining actions their government would take towards achieving Starmer’s five missions. One of these ...

Labour’s return to power in last year’s election (their first win since 2005) came with a strong mandate to deliver meaningful change. Central to Labour’s manifesto was a commitment to build 1.5 million new homes, ...

In an era defined by digital transformation, the threat of cybercrime looms larger than ever. For businesses of all sizes, understanding and mitigating these risks isn’t just good practice – it’s essential for survival and ...

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 ...

Stakeholders come in many forms, from MPs, to local councillors, reporters, to experts within your industry. Also varied and potentially confusing – the relationships you and your organisation will have with each type. With so ...

As we step into Christmas and the New Year, the Vuelio Political Team have been thinking and writing about the key developments that pervaded UK policy and politics in 2024. Here is our overview… Treating ...

How has the emergence of new media platforms impacted journalism, and its audiences? To explore the state of journalism today and how it’s evolving for the future, we invited two panels of industry experts to ...

What will go off with a bang in the media in November? Many people will be celebrating Bonfire night with fireworks this evening, and journalists, broadcasters, and influencers have been using the ResponseSource Journalist Enquiry ...

Written by Michael Kane and Laura Fitzgerald.  Nearly four months on from the 2024 General Election and the UK’s first female Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally delivered the Government’s Budget. The hefty 170-page document, and Reeves’ ...

The Conservative leadership candidates have all given their pitch to the party hoping to succeed Rishi Sunak. The last time Conservative members chose their leader, they went for Liz Truss. This time the choice will ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott from the Vuelio Political Team.  Our blog last week highlighted that, despite the Labour leadership’s disciplinarian grasp on policy development, the fringes at last week’s Labour conference still ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott on the Vuelio Political Team, reporting from 2024’s UK Party Conferences.  While the attention of the political media may have been on the movements within the main conference ...

Was getting unemployed people into employment a key priority for the Conservative Government? Attempts included the New Back to Work Plan, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s promise to tackle what he called ‘sick-note culture’, and ...

During the King’s Speech, an Employment Rights Bill was promised by the Labour Government. The Bill aims to deliver on policies set out in the Plan to Make Work Pay. Commitments in the plan include ...

In attempts to highlight its importance, Labour dedicated two pages of its manifesto to equalities in a section entitled ‘Respect and opportunity for all’. Here, they promised to ‘ensure [that] no matter whatever your background, ...

When speaking prior to July 2024’s General Election, the then-Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy described Labour’s foreign policy as ‘progressive realism’ which ‘advocates using realist means to pursue progressive ends’. In practice, he said this ...

The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill was the first introduced by the new Labour Government in Parliament. This Bill is meant to deliver on Labour’s manifesto commitment to reform the railways and bring them ...

Written by Helen Stott and Michael Kane. It was nearly a month ago that the United Kingdom voted to deliver Labour to their first electoral majority since 2005, leaving the Conservatives with a measly 121 ...

Written by Michael Kane and Helen Stott.  With the King’s Speech, Labour may have hoped to represent an emancipatory moment after almost a generation in what seemed to be perennial opposition. However, it was instead ...

A growing awareness of the impacts of climate change has meant greater accountability for PRs communicating company ESG credentials. Alongside the potential for bad press if you’re doing it wrong are the dangers of falling ...