Education Secretary meets apprentices on his first visit

Visiting the Royal Mail’s Mail Centre in Leeds, Mr Williamson met and spoke with some of the company’s 460 apprentices. They were joined by representatives from the ambulance service and children’s charity Action for Children both of which are benefitting from a share of Royal Mail’s apprenticeship levy funding. Education …

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The utter failure of nationalising water

Water privatisation has been a disaster and state or public ownership could be the solution. Thames Water remains one of the worst examples of Thatcherite privatisation. Giving it back to its customers and employees to run is long overdue and would avoid the huge tax payer costs of renationalisation too. …

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