Revive an ailing NHS brought to its knees by Tory neglect and the whole country will celebrate Keir Starmer’s Labour government’s achievement. Chancellor Rachel Reeves putting the health service at the heart of her Budget on October 30, injecting much-needed extra funds alongside Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s reform programme, would avert a winter crisis and help slash near record waiting lists. The Budget must not only be about requiring the better off to pay their fair share in tax.
Investing in the future and restoring key services would finance the work to repair the criminal damage of 14 terrible Tory years. Delivering an NHS fit for the 21st century is one of the PM’s five missions alongside opportunities for all, higher economic growth, clean energy and safer streets. Flak over clothes and tickets and the winter fuel scything must not be allowed to blow Labour off course. Saving the NHS could put the government back on track.
Tories so BadHopelessly out of touch, Kemi Badenoch demonstrated exactly why the Tories are unfit to govern Britain by learning nothing from electoral rejection. UK maternity pay is worse than in most developed economies so to suggest regulations are “excessive” is callous ignorance or spite.
The wannabe leader rowing back, claiming she was misrepresented, sounded pitiful and an unintentional admission from a brash operator who brags she never makes mistakes. Fresh thinking is a stranger in the Tory fight between has-beens Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Badenoch. Rehearsing toxic arguments and offering no new vision is a party in a hole still digging.
Tom scuttledStrictly judges pulling the plug on Olympic golden boy Tom Dean to save Toyah Willcox was a glitter ball shock. The public thought the swimmer was making a splash until they sank his chances.
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