She had responsibility for a number of important issues - parliamentary reform and drugs policy among them - but she did not have an appetite for the job, nor did she hide her lack of interest in it or her disillusion with the New Labour experiment with which she had previously been so closely associated.
The Tories have experimented with "workfare", but the scale of Labour's scheme is much bigger (see page).Even here, Labour is underestimating the difficulties.
Unlike the Tory experiment, Labour's approach is fair, it works to raise standards, and is backed by rising funding per pupil".
But in practice they don't.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
His own time in government gave a rather strong flavour of that: between 1999 and 2003 he began decisively to fragment the NHS via the creation of foundation hospitals; and even before that he had accelerated Labour's insane experiment with the private finance initiative.
Ireland, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia all have corporation-tax rates below 20% and stand to gain if firms are allowed to hunt for low tax rates as they do for low wages.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
Tim Cross, who writes on energy, transport and utilities for the Britain section, won the Wincott Foundation award for young financial writer of the year.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
Not only do the broad patterns found in the 19th century hold the East End is still poor, the West End still rich but so do many local ones.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
But at the time, once the initial shock had worn off, there was a sense of relief and even some optimism that it had all been for the best.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
Some schools are in trouble financially: three mergers have taken place this year; one school in Buckinghamshire will close in August; and another, in Sussex, was recently rescued by parents.In this section There goes the neighbourhood Holes in the net Labour's great experiment Who wants to sort out home affairs?
