Jeremy Hunt and that manifesto promise, which he’s betrayed

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,415 Wednesday 27 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In your 2015 manifesto you stated the following: “We want England to be the first nation in the world to provide a truly 7 day NHS. Already millions more people can see a GP 7 days a week, from […]

When the going gets tough, the government runs away

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,396 Friday 08 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I notice that you were touting yourself as a champion of tax transparency (again) at a student EU rally in Exeter yesterday. Listening to you, you sounded like the messianic chief of the global war on tax evasion, although […]

Thank goodness we have the poor to pay off the debt

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,143 Friday 10 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’m curious, George Osborne proudly announced in the budget ‘the sale of Government assets this year will deliver the largest privatisation proceeds of all time, higher than the previous record in 1987’. Apparently ‘£32billion of state-owned assets will be […]