Tag Archives: stephen farrell

Daily View 2×2: 10 September 2009

By Richard Huzzey | Thu 10th September 2009 - 12:02 am

2 Big Stories

Tories announce curb in health spending increases

As The Telegraph reports,

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, said that the Tories would cut the rate at which NHS spending was increasing.

The health service would have to “tighten its belt” and accept small increases in its budget, he added.

Afghanistan Rescue Mission Debated

Meanwhile, questions emerged overnight as to the British military intervention to rescue journalist Stephen Farrell:

Military officials tonight defended the decision to launch a dramatic raid to rescue a British journalist from the Taliban, in which his Afghan assistant and a soldier were killed, against angry criticism in

…

Continue reading »

Posted in Daily View | Also tagged andrew lansley, charlotte gore and sara bedford | 1 Comment

Most Read

Op-eds

Are the Liberal Democrats invisible? (Veronica-Mae Soar)
Being a Councillor – 35 years on (Chris Nicholson)
Roz Savage MP writes: Liberalism is having a Moment. But does it have a future? (Roz Savage MP)
Reinvigorating the Royal Navy (Ben Edginton-Thomas)
Global Power or Euro-Atlantic leader? (Peter Chambers)

Advert

Recent Comments

Mick Taylor
Actually what is really needed is fearless politicians, unafraid to make difficult decisions. What we have seen over many years is vacillation and u-turns. In t...
cim
@David Allen I think the key - for electoral communications, at least - is to skip the description of the process entirely and go straight to the outcome. Yo...
David Warren
The last sentence sums up it for me. We are getting squeezed out in the majority of constituencies and the beneficiaries of the progressive protest vote are the...
Alex Macfie
"those on the left don’t tend to see individuals but see people as members of identity groups," so do many on the Right, using "identity groups" to divide peo...
Jana
My son-in-law is a police officer. He tells me that there is no point arresting shop-lifters as they always get bailed and will be shop-lifting again within the...