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Danny Alexander – the new Roosevelt?
You might get the impression in the Commons that the UK is about to enter a golden age of infrastructure building. But wander down the road from Westminster and you get a cooler view.
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Measures to crackdown on health tourism, including a “registration and tracking” system and the possibility of charging for GP services, are to be announced by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
You might get the impression in the Commons that the UK is about to enter a golden age of infrastructure building. But wander down the road from Westminster and you get a cooler view.
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The government will be trumpeting new money for infrastructure projects, but there’s no disguising the bad news coming down the track.
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Half a million healthy women at high risk of getting breast cancer will for the first time be offered a cheap course of NHS drugs to help lessen their chances of contracting the disease.