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Labour is getting it right on key issues

Connor Ryan reports that the Labour Government is, despite the polls, getting it right on the key issues – 42-day detention without charge; GP surgery policy and polyclinics; and, action on under-performing schools – and concludes that “What these three policies also have in common is that they are opposed by the Conservatives. Aside from Lord Tebbit and Ann Widdecombe, the 42 days are publicly opposed by the party. Tory health policy is being shamefully written by the BMA. And on education, the Tories would scrap targets, even when they are so patently a lever for improvement – and for pushing the sort of structural reform with which, at least, they share Labour’s ambition.”

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