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The government has given the go-ahead for six new NHS hospitals to be built under the controversial private finance initiative (PFI) deals worth £1.5 billion. The proposals would take the value of hospitals being built by private construction firms, who are paid back by the NHS trust over 20 or 30 years, to over £10… Read more »
Parliament is “haemorrhaging public confidence” by failing to return early to debate the crisis in the Middle East, a Labour backbencher has warned. Jon Trickett, who has led calls by more than 100 MPs for parliament to be recalled from its summer break, warned that the House of Commons was the only place in the… Read more »
