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JEREMY CORBYN pledged yesterday that a Labour government will run public services “for the benefit of the many not the profits of the few” in a video response to Carillion going into liquidation.
He described the financial meltdown of the private outsourcing company as a “watershed moment” that proves that the “outsourcing-first dogma” has seen profits creamed off public funds while the companies fail to deliver.
The Labour leader linked the event with the NHS winter crisis, privatisation and outsourcing.
He continued: “Staff and patients in our NHS are facing shocking conditions this winter.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP