We know that the NHS is broken: Wes Streeting announced that it was now the official policy of this government when he entered the Department of Health and Social Care. Today he had a chance to elaborate on just what exactly he thought was broken – and of course to point the finger at who was responsible.
It was his first departmental questions in the House of Commons, and like every other incoming Secretary of State, Streeting made sure he laid on the ‘Tories broke this’ line as thickly as cream on a scone. Pointing to shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins, he described the hospital building programme:
I once again say to the Opposition that they handed over an entirely fictional timetable and an unfounded programme. The hon. Lady might not know because she was not there immediately prior to the election, but the shadow Secretary of State, who is sitting right next to her, knows exactly where the bodies are buried in the department, where the unexploded bombs are, and exactly the degree to which this timetable and the funding were not as set out by the previous government.
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