ECHO COLUMN: Local elections 2024 - voting for the first North East Mayor and an opportunity for change.
In the midst of a Conservative-inflicted cost-of-living crisis, housing stock shortage and the North East experiencing the worst child poverty levels in the country, voters will be going to the polls on the 2nd of May.
ECHO COLUMN: Mayoral, PCC and local elections - 2 May, 2024
It's high time Government was held accountable for the crisis in mental health provision.
ECHO COLUMN: It's high time Government was held accountable for the crisis in mental health provision.
ECHO COLUMN: Our NHS Dentistry is at breaking point
ECHO COLUMN: Our NHS Dentistry is at breaking point thanks to the Conservatives
Tories are bulldozing workers' rights
ECHO COLUMN: Tories are bulldozing workers' rights
Rare Disease Day provided opportunity to shine light on lesser-known conditions that need for highly specialised treatments.
This Tuesday was Rare Disease Day.
The 28th of February provided the opportunity for us to shine a light on conditions that are lesser known but carry with them complex symptoms and a need for highly specialised treatments.
ECHO COLUMN: Rare Disease Day provided opportunity to shine light on lesser-known conditions.
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A Tory PM - This is not what integrity, professionalism and accountability look like.
ECHO COLUMN: This is not what integrity, professionalism and accountability look like.
Patients are paying the price for 13 years of Conservative mismanagement of the NHS.
Yesterday, my colleague Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, made a scathing assessment of the Conservative Government’s record with our NHS.
ECHO COLUMN: NHS patients are paying the price for 13 years of Tory mismanagement.
The damage that the Conservative Party has done to our country has been immense.
While the economic shocks from Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could not be predicted, Britain is lagging in its recovery compared to our G7 counterparts.
ECHO COLUMN: Our communities desperately need stability, something which successive Conservative Governments have denied us for far too long.
Sunak promised professionalism; his premiership so far is 'a professional car crash'
In another example of the merry-go-round that is Tory government these days, Rishi Sunak, after jumping ship as Chancellor three months ago and personally putting the last nail in the coffin of Boris Johnson’s stint as Prime Minister, has returned to Downing Street as the latest captain of the sleaze and scandal-ridden sinking ship that is this Tory government.
ECHO COLUMN: Sunak promised professionalism; his premiership so far is 'a professional car crash'
Tories are making life harder for people every day they are in office.
The kamikaze budget will have significant repercussions for household bills, budgets and the future of the country.