Victoria Macdonald
Government pushes through ‘hospital closure clause’
The government could be facing a cross-party revolt on the care bill, which would give it greater powers to close or downgrade hospital services.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Gary Gibbon
Labour one member, one vote sealed at NEC today
Last night saw a final change to Labour’s one member, one vote plans, with the threshold for MPs’ nominations required before a candidate can go forward raised from 12.5 per cent.
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Jeremy Hunt vows Tories will give CQC ‘teeth’
Jeremy Hunt announces the Conservatives will give the Care Quality Commission “teeth” to investigate any hospital or trust, without needing state permission, in the wake of the Mid Staffs scandal.
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Health secretary will consider limits on sugar in food
The health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that he will consider capping the amount of sugar in foods aimed at children if the industry “doesn’t get its house in order”.
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NHS reforms ‘threaten emergency care’
With the NHS bill receiving royal assent, a leaked document drawn up by senior civil servants warns that the government’s reforms could damage the health service.
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FactCheck: Is the government breaking the law on the NHS?
“So two decisions have gone against the government, but they still haven’t come up with the all-important document. Does that mean, as Andy Burnham claimed, that they are technically flouting the law?”
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Critic of NHS reforms demands health secretary apology
Speaking to Channel 4 News John Ashton, one of Cumbria’s top doctors, demands a government apology after being summoned to explain himself to local NHS chiefs for criticising planned health reforms.
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Help women with faulty breast implants, says Labour
Labour is calling on cosmetic surgery firms to do more to support women with faulty breast implants, as a panel of experts meet to discuss fears over rupture rates.
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LIVE BLOG: follow #c4news 8 October 2010
Watch Channel 4 News for the latest on the new Labour Shadow Cabinet, the effort to free 33 miners trapped underground in Chile, and a Cumbrian museum’s appeal for more time to save a Roman mask.
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Ed Miliband: time for Labour’s new generation
Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, pledges to lead a “new generation” which will “relish” the chance to take on David Cameron. Political editor Gary Gibbon says the speech did not sink – or fly.
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Labour leadership: how a contest works
Unions, the PLP or the electoral college? Channel 4 News looks at how the process of electing a Labour leader works and the candidates likely to benefit from the system.
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Tone of Labour leadership debate set by Tony
The candidates for the Labour leadership outlined their vision for the party during last night’s Channel 4 News hustings, but Peter McHugh notes that the debate’s biggest player was not in the studio.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour leadership candidates ‘fired up’
TV hustings on Channel 4 News just now. The first one not conducted by the strict rules that governed all the other ones. So you get a lot of inter-change.
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Faisal Islam
Labour leadership: Walking with deficit deniers
The Chancellor recently derided the Labour leadership candidates as ‘deficit-deniers’, an opinion with which Tony Blair appears to concur. The final chapter of his new book does place him closer to the Coalition Treasury than the economic policies outlined to date by the candidates. Ahead of our Labour leadership hustings on the economy, it’s worth…
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Labour leadership ‘soap opera’ as ballot opens
Ed Balls accuses supporters of the Miliband brothers of turning the Labour leadership contest into a two-horse race, focusing on the “soap opera” of sibling rivalry. Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports.
