Another winter crisis looms for the NHS, meaning a difficult start for the new Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins. Despite Rishi Sunak pledging to reduce the hospital waiting list, it has continued to grow. Atkins told Laura Kuenssberg that more money than ever before was going into the NHS, and the government was using that cash to increase its workforce. She also implied that recent industrial action was partly to blame for the long waiting list, despite seeing a graph that showed a steady increase in its size since 2010.
Starmer’sThatcher praise:
Keir Starmer attempted to woo Conservative voters this weekend with an article in the Sunday Telegraph in which he said Labour would ‘get Britain back to greatness’, and described Margaret Thatcher as having ‘dragged Britain out of its stupor’. Trevor Phillips asked shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds if that period of greatness was indeed referring to the country’s Thatcher years.
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