With her spring statement, the chancellor came across as the penitent cowboy builder forced to explain how the foundations ...

There are calls for dredging from flooded homeowners - but the Environment Agency say it is a "sticking plaster".

Yet today's proposed solutions look like a sticking plaster at best. Liz Kendall's proposals will trim £5 billion from the welfare budget, prompting predictable howls of anger from the Labour ...

Also writing for The Telegraph, he said that "like putting a plaster on a deep wound", short jail terms "might hide the problem temporarily", but they "don't heal it". Pia Sinha, chief executive ...

Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...