Alain Tolhurst

Chief Reporter and podcast host @politicshome, egg chaser for @oldstreetrugby and pie bowler for @addington_vcc 📧[email protected]

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The Planning Bill gives developers the right to pay cash to trash nature - it must change

1 day ago | politicshome.com | Alain Tolhurst

The Planning Bill gives developers the right to pay cash to trash nature – it must change Campaigners and MPs, including Chris Hinchliff, gather in Parliament Square calling for urgent action to save chalk streams, June 2025 (Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News) If the purpose of politics is to lay the foundations of a good life for all, the environmental measures in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill reveal a troubling lack of imagination at the heart of government. For two decades, a...
How Do Spending Reviews Work?

2 days ago | politicshome.com | George Dibb |Alain Tolhurst

The Rundown Podcast: How Do Spending Reviews Work?
Voters In Labour-Reform Battleground Seats More Likely To Rely On Disability Benefits

4 days ago | politicshome.com | Alain Tolhurst |Zoe Crowther

Voters In Labour-Reform Battlegrounds More Likely To Rely On Disability Benefits A protest against welfare cuts was held in Cardiff in May (Alamy) The majority of Labour seats at risk from Reform have the highest rates of people living on disability benefits, according to new research by anti-poverty charity Trussell.
Big Tech should pay for local groups that build democratic muscle

1 week ago | politicshome.com | Alain Tolhurst

Big Tech should pay for local groups that build democratic muscle Those that profit from apps that undermine trust and so civic health have a duty to repair it Parts of the country headed out to the polls for the local elections earlier this month. Except, many people in those places didn’t. They stayed at home. Turnout for most of the mayoral elections barely scraped above 30 per cent.
Labour's New Tribes

1 week ago | politicshome.com | Sienna Rodgers |Alain Tolhurst

The Rundown Podcast: Inside Labour's New Tribes As disquiet brews within Labour over cuts to welfare, and a perceived failure to pursue a progressive enough agenda, this week The Rundown looks inside the governing party as a host of new caucuses and organised campaign groups have sprung up, and asks, who are the new tribes within Labour?
Coalition Revisited

2 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Sebastian Whale |Alain Tolhurst

The Rundown Podcast: What Can We Learn From The Coalition?
It's official! Veterans charity has cost saving formula

2 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Alain Tolhurst

It's official! Veterans charity has cost saving formula An independent report1 illustrating the social and economic value of the work of an ex-service charity has confirmed that Veterans Aid's interventions over the course of a year achieved net benefits (i.e. savings to society) of up to £2.6m.
The Rundown Podcast: The Social Care Crunch

3 weeks ago | politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Alain Tolhurst

The Rundown Podcast: The Social Care Crunch This week on The Rundown, the panel discusses how the UK ended up with a crisis in social care, after successive administrations failed to grasp the nettle and deal with the rising costs of a sector that has ballooned in size to deal with our ageing population, while funding cuts have left local councils with their entire budgets swallowed up in providing statutory services. To look at another of the knotty, seemingly intractable issues left in...
Fixing A Broken Rental Market

1 month ago | politicshome.com | Paula Barker MP |Alain Tolhurst

The Rundown Podcast: Fixing The Broken Rental Market This week on The Rundown, the panel takes a look at the government’s plan to try and fix the UK’s rental market, as soaring rents, terrifying competition, no fault evictions, poorly maintained properties and huge supply pressures trap an increasingly large cohort of tenants in a system that means they may never own their own homes.
Labour Row Over “Brain Dead” NI Exemption for Indian Workers In Trade Deal

1 month ago | politicshome.com | Alain Tolhurst

4 min read Labour MPs in Red Wall seats have privately expressed anger after the government announced a new "landmark" trade deal with India which includes a National Insurance exemption for Indian workers, PoliticsHome understands. Under the ‘double contribution convention’ that forms part of the new UK-India agreement, Indian workers temporarily moved to the UK will not pay National Insurance contributions for three years. British workers in India will enjoy the same benefit.