Rishi Sunak – The NHS ‘is under pressure’
Laura Kuenssberg kicked off her first show of the new year with an interview with the Prime Minister, who now has a maximum of just two years to turn his party’s ailing poll numbers around. The National Health Service has always posed its fair share of political problems, but with the system now suffering from industrial action, alongside what some are calling a ‘twindemic’ of Covid and flu cases, Kuenssberg asked Rishi Sunak if the NHS was in crisis:
My healthcare arrangements are ‘a distraction’
Kuenssberg inquired as to whether Sunak used the NHS himself. Sunak was not comfortable being as frank on the subject as his predecessor Margaret Thatcher:
Laura Kuenssberg – ‘Why would anyone under 45 vote Conservative?’
Kuenssberg challenged Sunak to provide some concrete reasons for why his party deserved to receive the youth vote at the next election. Polling has consistently shown that the Conservatives are struggling with demographics right up to early middle age:
Keir Starmer – ‘We need change and reform’ in the NHS
Sophy Ridge spoke to the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about how his party would manage the NHS’s myriad problems. Sir Keir stressed the need for an overhaul, including more utilisation of the private sector:
Rules on MPs second jobs ‘should be stricter’
Ridge was also keen to ask about data that Sky News has amalgamated on the amount of money that MPs earn from sources other than their parliamentary salaries. In particular, she highlighted the case of the Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy:
Wes Streeting – ‘I’m not trying to insult GPs’
And finally, Kuenssberg asked the Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting about why he seemed to have a ‘beef’ with GPs:
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