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A menu without prices for the NHS
Labour’s 24-page manifesto for the health service carefully avoids explaining how any of it will be paid for and provided. This is more than worrying, writes JOHN LISTER
TUNE IN LABOUR! NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, May 1 2023
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IT’S almost a month since the Labour Party launched Build an NHS Fit for the Future, one of five “missions” that are supposed to show clearly what the party stands for. It has gone down like a lead balloon.
That is hardly surprising. The turgid 24-page tract lacks both passion and credibility: it’s like a menu without the prices.
While many of its proposals in themselves are sound, there is no explanation of how they might go from words into action.
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