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The conservatives better pray that there's never an election again.
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Labour eyeing 400-seat lead over Tories, new poll

March 1, 2023

Another week, another diabolical polling result for the Conservatives.

The latest prediction from Electoral Calculus puts Labour a whopping 400 seats ahead of the Tories, at 484 seats compared to 84.

If an election were held tomorrow, based on the data, the chances of a Labour majority would be 97%.

The projected Tory seat tally – down from 365 today – would represent the party’s worst ever result by quite some margin. The Conservatives’ nadir is currently 156 seats in the 1906 general election.

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State-owned electricity generation firm ‘could save Britons nearly £21bn a year’

Tue 7 Mar 2023 07.00 GMT

A publicly owned electricity generation firm could save Britons nearly £21bn a year, according to new analysis that bolsters Labour’s case to launch a national energy company if the party gains power.

Thinktank Common Wealth has calculated that the cost of generating electricity to power homes and businesses could be reduced by £20.8bn or £252 per household a year under state ownership, according to a report seen by the Guardian.

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has committed to creating “a publicly owned national champion in clean energy” named Great British Energy.

Starmer is yet to lay out the exact structure of the mooted company, although he has said it would not involve nationalising existing assets, or become involved in the transmission or retail supply of energy.

Starmer instead hopes to create a state-backed entity that would invest in clean energy – wind, solar, tidal, nuclear and other emerging technologies – creating jobs and ensuring windfalls from the growth in low carbon power feed back to the government.

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To add to my tweet, he also confirmed the UK will pursue exascale computing.

Big investments in quantum computing, too.


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Get out of this country while you can. It's a sinking ship.

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NHS staff shortages in England could exceed 570,000 by 2036, leaked document warns

Sun 26 Mar 2023 19.56 BST

The NHS in England needs a massive injection of homegrown doctors, nurses, GPs and dentists to avert a recruitment crisis that could leave it short of 571,000 staff, according to an internal document seen by the Guardian.

A long-awaited workforce plan produced by NHS England says the health service is already operating with 154,000 fewer full-time staff than it needs, and that number could balloon to 571,000 staff by 2036 on current trends.

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