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 ...

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Mr Hayden said: "No-one in this day and age should have to sleep rough on the street, so it's really important that we provide that sticking plaster, that emergency support." His charity aims to ...

The wiggle room will be noted in Scunthorpe and beyond. The government has provided a sticking plaster not a solution. But this is about so much more than what's going on in Lincolnshire ...

A homelessness charity in Wolverhampton has said additional funding announced by the government is likely to be only a "sticking plaster". "For us, the most important thing is having long-term ...

But Andy Burrows, head of the Molly Rose Foundation, called the announcement "a belated, reactive and completely unsatisfactory response" which he said "seems like a sticking plaster fix to their ...

Few would argue with Labour's claim that the welfare system is 'broken'. The rapid rise in the benefits bill in recent years ...