This government is so determined to change everything, especially anything that Labour did, that they are tripping over themselves in their legislative haste. Here are 24 coalition plans,so far, that didn’t make it. What next? High Speed rail, NHS reorganisation, defence cuts? Who knows but there will be plenty more u-turns to come.
1 Forcing ministers on to the Tory backbench 1922 committee. U-turn 24 May
2 Setting threshold for dissolution of Parliament at only 55% 5 July
3 Giving anonymity to rape suspects 27 July
4 Scrapping free milk for under fives 8 August
5 Scrapping NHS Direct 8 September
6 Hiring a vanity photographer as a civil servant 17 November
7 Imposing cap on housing benefit for tenants in private rented housing (postponed 9 months) 28 November
8 Automatic jail for knife crime 7 December
9 Cutting School Sports Partnership 20 December
10 Scrapping Bookstart scheme to give free books to children 26 December
11Scrapping Winter Flu Ad Campaign 30 December
12 Keeping Andy Coulson 21 January
13 Removing Protection for School Music budget 8 February
14 Ruling out extra bank levy 8 February
15 Giving prisoners the vote 10 February
16 Privatising search and rescue helicopters 8 February
17 Cutting funding for debt advice 12 February
18 Not getting a Downing St cat 15 February
19 Selling of the forests 16 February
20 Cutting housing benefit for those jobless for a year or more 17 February
21 Osborne ditches “green” ISAs
22 Cameron turns Middle East arms sales jaunt into peace plea
23 Plane hired to rescue Britons can’t take off
24 Navy ships heading for scrap yard diverted to rescue Britons
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