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Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s vision to offer technical subjects to 14-year-olds has been welcomed by insulation specialist Actis. Tthe company says enabling teenagers to explore practical subjects and ‘the trades’ will be of immense help in tackling the sector’s skills gap. Although, along with fellow industry professionals, the company says …

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning We’ve all known those people who come into a new job with fresh ideas and a mountain of energy, fizzing with enthusiasm, and a …

The only way out is through Since 1997, the UK has had, if you include Andy Burnham, who may or may not be elected unopposed as Leader of the Labour Party, and, therefore, PM, nine Prime Ministers. Of those, only five have won a General Election – the public’s trust, …

Prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt visited Selco Builders Warehouse on one of the most significant days in the political calendar. Sunak and Hunt were welcomed into Selco’s Old Kent Road branch just hours after the Spring Budget were delivered to the House of Commons. …

The government has announced that every council in England will be told that they will need to prioritise brownfield developments and instructed to be less bureaucratic and more flexible in applying policies that halt housebuilding on brownfield land. The bar for refusing brownfield plans will also be made much higher …

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. Some weeks nothing happens. You get up, go to work, come home, shout at the children, go to bed and start all over again. Nothing of note happens. Last week …

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. There are so many phrases to describe the situation that we seem to be in at the moment with regards to the leader of our great nation. Horns of a dilemma, Hobsons Choice, lesser of two evils…. In essence, …

What’s gone, and what’s past help, Should be past grief. The trouble with there being so very many things to get angry about is often that you don’t know where to begin and so your anger gets dissipated. I’m rather afraid of this happening right now. I wrote quite a …

Reacting to today’s news that Boris Johnson MP has been elected as the new Conservative Party Leader, John Newcomb, Chief Executive of the Builders Merchants’ Federation, said “I congratulate Boris Johnson on his election as Tory Leader in succession to Theresa May.  I also wish him well, as the challenges …

With the lastest stats from the ONS show that the construction industry has flatlined at 0.0% growth in the three month on three months to May 2019, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) says that construction leaders are calling on the new Prime Minister to stimulate construction and house building …