Since 2010 the UK has had the weakest GDP per capita, the lowest wage growth, and among the highest unemployment rates of any period of government since WWII.
Striking chart from the Resolution Foundation this morning 👇

Remarkable chart from the FT showing that the British economy basically never recovered from the Great Financial Crisis. In the words of @MartinWolf_: 'In all, this is a disaster.'

CALCULATOR: Workers on less than £30k are worse off overall thanks to frozen tax thresholds, despite the now 4p national insurance cut.

Workers on £50k do best - saving enough for an extra holiday a year.

Workers on £15k lose most - about three months' worth of food shopping.

Extra £2.5bn for NHS next year is just enough to stop spending falling compared to this year. It is not an increase on this year's spending. History suggests there will be more top ups to come.

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins to ask NHS chief Amanda Pritchard to look into report of 5 year old Yusuf Nazir’s death, according to Yusuf’s family. They held an hour long meeting with the Health Secretary to share their concerns over a “whitewash”.

Sigh. Such dumb management of a critical national service is frankly embarassing. Plus the dangerous unintended consequences on culture.

Mid Staffs A&E was a warzone precisely because of a culture that demanded hitting targets above care. We've learned nothing.

MPs say 'covered-up' evidence could reveal 'one of the biggest medical frauds of 20th century' trib.al/4bNtPBu

Pay offer from Government rejected for specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors in England, following a majority no vote in the member referendum.

Find out more and next steps 👇
bma.org.uk/saspay

Oh my goodness

Patrick Kidd The Times and The Sunday Times

Internal figures show the NHS waiting list increased by 25k in January, following strikes over the Christmas period.

A small and expected rise - but coming just weeks before Sunak admitted he had failed to cut the waiting list.

What's the difference between assisted dying, assisted suicide and euthanasia? news.sky.com/video/whats-th…

'The laws around assisted dying are changing. That's for a reason. People are dying differently now. Patients want choice at the end of life.'

CEO of Dignity in Dying Sarah Wootton speaks to Kay Burley about legalising assisted dying.

trib.al/u1YKOYa

📺 Sky 501

Where do you stand on Assisted Dying? Is it time to have this difficult and divisive debate. Watch this film we made on the Isle Of Man which is close to changing its law. The rest of the British Isles could follow. youtu.be/_A3JyaEVRLc

.Sky News and Tortoise on 'taking on every single MP' in their Innovation award-winning investigation: Westminster Accounts #RTSAwards

Infected Blood Compensation will be decided by a Secret Group of Anonymous People and None of their work will be published.

Nice.

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

“We’re like the forgotten corner of England, we don’t count”

I went to Rochdale to see how people feel about the by-election tomorrow after the chaos around candidates. Many I spoke to aren’t thrilled with the choice they’ve got left

Understand that the roughly £900m cut to capital includes:
-£300m total from 'new hospital' programme
-£300m from tech funding
-£200m from funding for new lease accounting standard IFRS16

💷 £400m+ already spent
📈 500%+ rise in estimated cost (to £3.2bn)
🗓️ 2036 est. delivery (30 yrs after 1st assessment)

Failures in decision-making at a planned UK Health Security Agency hub in Harlow are undermining the UK's resilience to future pandemics.

Read more: nao.org.uk/reports/invest…