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The White Paper for post-16 education reform ‘Skills for Jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth’ has been released...
Covid-19: Weekly Health Summary – 21 January
January 21, 2021
The Health Summary is part of our Weekly COVID-19 Bulletin, and this week contains the latest stats as well as information around the spread of coronavirus. ...
Covid-19: Weekly Economy Summary – 21 January
January 21, 2021
The latest update on the economy during the pandemic, including Recent ONS data showing that the UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November....
Baroness Bennett: The future of the world has to be Green
January 15, 2021
Green peer Baroness Natalie Bennett of Manor Castle writes about the challenges of getting the Government to agree to environmental standards and the kind of people therefore needed in opposition....
2021 Will Be Good For Public Affairs
January 14, 2021
Stuart Thomson, head of public affairs at law firm BDB Pitmans and winner of the Current Affairs category at the Online Influence Awards 2020, explains why public affairs is essential in 2021, and offers advice to maximise success....
Vuelio launches Political Reports
January 13, 2021
Vuelio has launched Political Reports, a new tool for public affairs and communications practitioners to analyse the increasingly complex political landscape by delivering stakeholder insight across a range of channels, from Twitter to ...
The Road to Glasgow: Stanley Johnson on COP26
January 13, 2021
Stanley Johnson writes that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is positive when it comes to protecting the environment, and the UK should take elements from it, such as carbon tax and carbon pricing, to COP26 and push for a ...
Jamie Stone MP: Government must ‘come to its senses’ and support small business owners and freelancers
January 4, 2021
The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Jamie Stone MP, writes about why he set up the Gaps in Support All-Party Parliamentary Group early on in the pandemic and how it continues to campaign for the ...
Top 10 PR & Communications blog posts of 2020
December 23, 2020
In 2020 we’ve aimed to provide support, advice, and guidance to PR and comms practitioners. Here are ten of our most popular PR and communications blog posts of 2020....
Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper writes about the plight of the pub trade in the UK and calls for action to prevent thousands of pubs from closing for good as a result of the ......
Owen Thompson MP: The Internal Market Bill sets up Britain to build back worse, but Scotland can choose differently
December 18, 2020
The SNP Deputy Chief Whip and MP for Midlothian Owen Thompson explains why he believes the Internal Markets Bill is bad news for Scotland and the devolved nations and could see a lowering of standards....
The SNP’s Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Dog Welfare and Disability, as well as owner of rescue dog Rossi, writes that protecting puppy welfare doesn’t just affect dogs’ lives, it also helps human ...
This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational....
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oates has given an interview to Vuelio’s External Relations Manager Sam Webber to promote his newly released memoir ‘I Never Promised You A Rose Garden’. Jonny Oates previously served in Government from 2010 ...
Vuelio hosts a webinar to discuss Rishi Sunak's Comprehensive Spending Review and its likely impact. Sign up here to listen to the event live on 26 November at 11am or to receive a recording afterwards....
New Social Housing White Paper will give residents a voice
November 18, 2020
Vuelio’s Housing policy researcher Jennifer Prescott introduces the Government’s much anticipated Social Housing White Paper which she says represents ‘an important step in the Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy’ and ...
This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational....
2020 Party Conference Season: Housing policy update
October 22, 2020
In a series of blogs, the Vuelio Policy team is sharing insight from the main Party Conference speeches. Jennifer Prescott has summarised all of the announcements on increasing home ownership, housing supply, net zero housing and ...
2020 Party Conference Season: Energy and the green recovery
October 21, 2020
In a series of blogs, the Vuelio Policy team is sharing insight from the main Party Conference speeches. Thomas Stevenson has summarised all of the announcements on energy, the green recovery and plans to create a more sustainable economy....
In a series of blogs, the Vuelio Policy team is sharing insight from the main Party Conference speeches and from fringe meetings. Imogen Brown focussed on announcements affecting the Health and Social Care sectors....
2020 Party Conference Season: Education and Skills
October 20, 2020
In a series of blogs, the Vuelio Policy team is sharing insight from the main Party Conference speeches and from fringe meetings. Policy Researcher Lucy Grove sets out the wider discussion on skills and the impact of Covid-19 on school ...
Can Britain fix its housing crisis?
October 20, 2020
Join Vuelio and a panel of experts on a webinar to discuss tackling the challenges facing the housing and planning sectors....
2020 Party Conference Season: Treasury roundup
October 14, 2020
In a series of blogs the Vuelio Policy team will be sharing insight from the main Party Conference speeches and from fringe meetings. Here we compare the speeches of the Chancellor and Shadow Chancellor....
Three-tier system of local Covid alert levels approved by MPs
October 14, 2020
Vuelio has produced a summary of recent announcements following the launch of the Government’s latest scheme to reduce the rate of coronavirus infection....
Leading a group of only 11 MPs in Westminster, and with critical election just around the corner in May 2021, we analyse Sir Ed Davey’s first party conference speech as Liberal Democrat leader....
Labour’s long, hard road back to Number 10
September 25, 2020
A recent fringe meeting at Labour Connect, the party’s virtual conference, heard from a range of different voices from across the party on what it needs to change in order to win the next election. Questions it covered included: how ...
TV companies took extra measures to support vulnerable freelancers during lockdown
September 18, 2020
Leading Television companies Netflix, Sky and Channel 5 gave evidence to the House of Commons Digital Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee earlier this week. All three confirmed they had taken steps to support freelancers and ...
Party political update: Time to secure an EU trade deal is running out as PM sets new 15 October deadline
September 9, 2020
Vuelio’s Sam Webber writes about the challenges for the main party leaders now parliament has returned from recess, as Brexit begins to dominate political bandwidth again, while COVID-19 remains a critical political issue following a ......
‘Protecting Scotland, Renewing Scotland’ – A summary of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government, 2020-21
September 3, 2020
Vuelio's Tom Stevenson summarises the key announcements in Nicola Sturgeon's latest 'Programme for Government' published this week. It kicks off a crucially important period in Holyrood politics, in the run-up to the Scottish ...
This week’s Political Updates covers moves and changes at all levels of government: local, devolved, national and, supranational....
Parliament Watch: Infrastructure and Rail
August 27, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences. The Government’s ambition for an ‘infrastructure ...
Parliament Watch: Energy & Utilities
August 26, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Is Rule Britannia a dead cat?
August 25, 2020
Dominating much of the news cycle and the Twittersphere these last couple of days is the story that the BBC’s Last Night Of The Proms will feature the song Rule Britannia (after initial reports suggesting ......
Parliament Watch: The Pharmaceutical sector
August 25, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Parliament Watch: Environment
August 24, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Parliament Watch: Comprehensive Spending Review speculation
August 21, 2020
The Treasury is accepting submissions for the Comprehensive Spending Review, one of the most significant political events of the Autumn....
Parliament Watch: Education and Skills
August 20, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Parliament Watch: The Health and Social Care sector
August 19, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Parliament Watch: Higher Education
August 18, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
Parliament Watch: Housing
August 17, 2020
In this series, we’re exploring how different sectors may be impacted by autumn policy announcements and how you can prepare for a period without physical party conferences....
