An imminent Nato summit, bursting prisons and another strike by junior doctors for starters mean whoever takes the keys to No 10 will have little to no time to celebrate
Larry, the Downing Street cat. Whoever shares No 10 with him after 4 July will have one of the most challenging inboxes of any UK prime minister.Larry, the Downing Street cat. Whoever shares No 10 with him after 4 July will have one of the most challenging inboxes of any UK prime minister.The campaign is over, but it’s only now that the really hard work begins.
This is, however, all sticking plaster stuff. Action will be needed. Cassia Rowland, senior researcher at the Institute for Government, said the new administration will not have “the luxury of time” to decide how to respond to the crisis in prisons. Close to 120,000 people are meanwhile waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claims – three times the number five years ago,analysis of Home Office figures by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. The backlog has been falling since the middle of last year, but two-thirds of those in the queue have still been waiting for more than six months.
Settling this dispute is a key priority for any government wanting to cut waiting lists. After this week’s latest walkout junior doctors have been on strike for 44 days since the start of the industrial action in March 2023. They want a 35% pay rise to achieve full pay restoration for the fall in the values of their incomes since 2008/09. But more than 1.4m appointments have been rescheduled because of industrial action, and £1.
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