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Isabel Hardman

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Wes Streeting has a chainsaw but no vision for the NHS

Wes Streeting has a chainsaw but no vision for the NHS
11.04.2025 3

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Ed Davey has a cunning plan to win over the protest voters: speak globally, think locally

Ed Davey has a cunning plan to win over the protest voters: speak globally, think locally
06.04.2025 10

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

Starmer and Badenoch played a childish blame game at PMQs

02.04.2025 3

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Keir tells Kemi that a phone ban in schools is ‘completely unnecessary’

Keir tells Kemi that a phone ban in schools is ‘completely unnecessary’
26.03.2025 4

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Rachel Reeves’s non-Budget was very bad news

Rachel Reeves’s non-Budget was very bad news
26.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Ed Miliband is really enjoying himself

21.03.2025 5

iNews

Isabel Hardman

National Insurance / Badenoch caught Starmer out at PMQs

19.03.2025 3

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Will Labour MPs stomach Liz Kendall’s benefits crackdown?

18.03.2025 3

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Do Labour know what they want from welfare reform?

17.03.2025 6

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Abolishing NHS England gives Wes Streeting what he really wants: control

13.03.2025 4

iNews

Isabel Hardman

What is the point of abolishing NHS England?

13.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Politics / Is Kemi Badenoch finally getting the hang of PMQs?

12.03.2025 3

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

More benefit cuts would risk turning drops of dissent in Labour’s ranks into a flood

09.03.2025 10

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

The utter pointlessness of Rachel Reeves's benefits cuts

07.03.2025 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Politics / Starmer avoids criticising Trump at PMQs

05.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Starmer: Zelensky is a ‘hero’

03.03.2025 8

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Starmer has his work cut out bringing peace to Ukraine

02.03.2025 1

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Wes Streeting is quietly seizing control of the NHS from the hands of bureaucrats

01.03.2025 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Trump presser could not have gone better for Starmer

28.02.2025 6

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

PMQs / Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘patronising’ her

26.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Amanda Pritchard resigns as NHS boss

25.02.2025 20

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Is the Army serious about changing a culture of misogyny?

23.02.2025 30

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Rachel Reeves's plan is to be even more brazen

15.02.2025 5

iNews

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Tory backbenchers are outshining Kemi Badenoch at PMQs

12.02.2025 5

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Why has Labour dropped so many NHS targets?

11.02.2025 3

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Rachel Reeves tries to reverse Labour’s economic gloom

29.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

More bad questions from Badenoch at PMQs

29.01.2025 7

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

The NHS isn’t solely to blame for its failure to reform

29.01.2025 8

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Ministers are clearly concerned about school reform row

27.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Snooping on benefit claimants will backfire on Labour

26.01.2025 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Kemi's comeback? / This was Badenoch’s best PMQs yet

22.01.2025 4

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Cooper announces Southport public inquiry

21.01.2025 4

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Keir Starmer has terrible judgement when it comes to his friends

18.01.2025 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Yvette Cooper announces new local grooming gang inquiries

16.01.2025 6

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

PMQs / Starmer saved his favourite attack until the end

15.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Is Westminster forgetting about the grooming gangs already?

13.01.2025 20

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Grooming, Shipman, Chilcot: for all the post-inquiry ‘never agains’, the default is inaction

12.01.2025 30

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

The NHS has given its most ominous warning yet

10.01.2025 4

iNews

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The Natural History Museum’s new Evolution Garden is inspired

09.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Reform and Tories accused of weaponising grooming gangs scandal

09.01.2025 8

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Kemi Badenoch must ask better questions

Keir Starmer has not seemed in control of the grooming gangs story since it broke, but at Prime Minister’s Questions, he had a rare period of...

08.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Sarah Champion and the grooming gang attention span problem

There are now two debates underway about grooming gangs and how the government should investigate them further. The first is the one raging on...

07.01.2025 20

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Wes Streeting’s ‘care plans’ are old news

There is much that is good in today’s NHS elective recovery announcement: changes to incentives for trusts so that they are rewarded for clearing...

06.01.2025 8

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Grooming gang row overshadows Keir Starmer’s NHS speech

Keir Starmer spent a significant time this morning arguing that the last thing we need is another review and report when the government just needs...

06.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

Start the rebuilding work, Keir Starmer, and show us you’re different to the last bunch of cowboys

Is this really going to be the year that the government “gets things done”? Keir Starmer is branding it as a “year of rebuilding”, returning...

05.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

Starmer is powerful enough to reform social care - he's choosing not to

It is not surprising that the Government has delayed any meaningful decisions on social care reform for at least three years. It is also not...

03.01.2025 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

What’s the point of a social care review?

Whack! That’s the sound of social care reform once again being hit into the long grass. Thud! Another hit sends it into a thicket of scrub. Not...

03.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Isabel Hardman

With a new year ahead there’s no better time for Keir Starmer to start playing good cop

Who is dreading the new year more: Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves? Most people look forward to the turn of the year as a chance that better things...

29.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Isabel Hardman

The UK's stance on Israel is about to become way more complicated

“Israel is only getting started” is not a statement that would automatically spark joy in UK government ministers who are still trying to work out...

28.12.2024 10

iNews

Isabel Hardman

Women and girls are the hidden victims of Starmer's broken promises

Is there nothing Keir Starmer really regrets? The Prime Minister claimed this week that there wasn’t anything he would have done differently if he...

21.12.2024 3

iNews

Isabel Hardman