Rishi Sunak pledge tracker: Are the PM’s promises being fulfilled?
As inflation falls to 8.7 per cent, we look at whether Rishi Sunak is any closer to delivering on the five pledges he made to the…
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Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Harry Clarke-Ezzidio is a policy reporter at the New Statesman. He covers a range of areas, including the cost-of-living crisis, levelling up and wider social affairs through reports, features, data-led investigations and interviews.
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NHS leaders are concerned over lack of new funds in the Budget
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The health crisis nobody is talking about
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MPs call for 90,000 more social homes every year and a new housing court
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