Politics Live: Should the UK follow South Africa in handing pot hole maintenance to private companies?

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John joins Labour MP Sarah Jones, Miatta Fahnbulleh from the New Economics Foundation, and former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe, on a panel hosted by Jo Coburn to discuss whether the UK should copy South Africa in handing pot hole maintenance to private companies?

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The Express: John joins Labour MP and Think Tank to assess impact of poor childcare provision, and come up with proposals to fix things

MOTHERS are facing a huge decade-long financial penalty following the arrival of their babies. They are losing out by as much as £70,000, according to analysis of childcare provision by the Social Market Foundation, which is launching a cross-party commission to investigate the issue. Tory MP John Penrose and Labour’s Siobhain McDonagh…

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The Telegraph: Don’t hand rail back to a Fat Controller; The Great British Railways quango will be outsized, powerful, intrusive and deter choice. Better to put it on a diet

Post-pandemic, lots of us are back using trains for leisure travel, and rail freight has kept going too. But business journeys are still a fraction of their pre-Covid levels, and few will shed a tear if we don’t have to commute so much in future either. Which is why the…

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