If you have heard people talking about Jackdaw and Rosebank but are not totally sure what they actually are... ⬇️
Love this as a prevention case study:
- Low cost, even revenue raising in the short term
- Improves health outcomes and reduces costly hospital admissions
Shows political leadership is key:
- Politically costly for Khan to implement
- Did it despite cost savings landing outside GLA
Defence secretary John Healey has just resigned over the govt's Defence Investment Plan, writing that it "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time". We're getting our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk resignation chart fired back up..
The central critique in Healey's resignation letter is that Starmer/Treasury have not found a way to meet defence spending pressures in the next few years, and instead have backloaded increases well into the next parliament (defence reaching 2.68% of GDP in 2030, compared to 3% he says is needed)