Sir Howard Davies, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), recently made an astonishing admission on BBC1’s Question Time when he stated that private finance initiatives (PFI) had been a “fraud

The NHS should take on the private health sector by selling a specialist occupational health service to employers, Alan Milburn, health secretary, proposed last night.

Prior to taking on one of the toughest jobs in public life, Stevens was a hospital porter who rose to become a key player in the direction of the NHS under Tony Blair’s government

Tony Blair today welcomed 11 private healthcare providers into the 'NHS family', as he promised them the chance to gain a stronger foothold in the NHS.

The health secretary, John Reid, today admitted there was a "culture of resistance" in the NHS to private contractors as he defended the government's £90m contract with a private health company to...

"THE CHANGES that we do propose would leave British law the most restrictive on trade unions in the Western world." Thus Tony Blair's boast in the election campaign: yesterday he fulfilled his

The muted cheers as Harriet Harman sat down at the end of her big speech said it all - the Social Security Secretary was deemed to have failed.

Get a job or lose your house: Labour's housing minister Caroline Flint says people should look for work as a condition of their tenancy

A relentless rise in the number of homeless families has forced Tony Blair to abandon an idea that he had hoped would be a symbol of New Labour as the party of home ownership.

ALMOST all benefit claimants will be forced either to look for a job or prepare for work if they want to continue to receive state handouts, under a shake-up of the welfare state. Single mothers of