Mark Smulian

is a freelance journalist

Recent articles

Increase in support for tax rises to fund NHS

Public support for a tax increase devoted to the NHS has grown sharply in only two years, according... Read more
Mordaunt sets out vision for international aid

UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to,... Read more
Doubts cast on Scots state energy plan

The Scottish Government has been warned that its ambition of creating a state-owned energy supplier... Read more
Unions agree council pay offer

Trade unions have accepted the local government pay offer, though a fresh dispute looms over an... Read more
Rudd launches plan to crack down on violent crime

Home secretary Amber Rudd has launched a £40m serious violence strategy following the recent spate... Read more
MPs highlight Carillion’s ‘cheeky’ ask for £10m government bailout

Collapsed public services and construction contractor Carillion paid £6.4m to business advisers the... Read more
TfL forecasts its first budget surplus

Transport for London expects to make its first operating surplus by 2021-22, its draft budget for... Read more
No Brexit funds for domestic departments

Some of the main domestic Whitehall departments have lost out on money allocated by the Treasury to... Read more
Buckinghamshire councils ‘angry’ at government’s unitary plans

District councils in Buckinghamshire have responded angrily to government plans to abolish them.
Any increase in public spending ‘unlikely to come from tax’

The government will find it hard to increase spending on public services even if it wishes to do so... Read more

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