Influential committee backs Coffee Cup Charge

MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee have published a report backing Liberal Democrat calls for a charge on disposable coffee cups.

The Committee has called on the Government to introduce a 25p levy on disposable coffee cups and a target to ensure they are all recycled by 2023.

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NHS figures show winter crisis is worsening

The NHS crisis is worsening.

The latest figures show that hospitals are facing the highest pressures so far this winter.

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Gove announcement is an insult to British farmers

Today, in a speech on his vision the future of our farming industry DEFRA Secretary Michael Gove has called for a move away from what he claims are farming “subsidies for inefficiency”.

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Register for the Future Women MPs weekend

Applications close on Jnauary 8th for the 2018 edition of the Future Women MPs Weekend, to be held in Milton Keynes on 24-25 February 2018.

Don’t miss out, apply today: 

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Hunt’s apology will be little comfort to patients seeing operations cancelled

Jeremy Hunt’s apology will be little comfort to the tens of thousands of people across the country seeing their operations delayed.

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