The Tories have taken the country through 12 years of economic calamity. If we don’t invest in our nation’s health and well-being how on earth will we have the healthy workforce that will deliver the growth we desperately need? Our NHS will not survive another period of austerity. We have a record seven million people waiting for treatment. ![]() I supported him on this and that’s why, now he’s in charge of the budget, I will make sure he puts the money where his mouth is and ensure the NHS is funded properly. In recent years, as Chair of the Health Select Committee, Hunt has admitted some of the failures and has campaigned for an NHS workforce plan because of the severe shortage of staff. The NHS was woefully underprepared for the pandemic and many more people, including NHS workers, died as a result. The winter crisis became an annual event with official figures showing 2017, 20 were successively the “worst on record”. By the time he left, patient experience and staff morale had both taken a dramatic turn for the worse across many key indicators. Hunt took over responsibility for the NHS in 2012. ![]() You won’t find many NHS workers who have a good thing to say about the Chancellor’s six years as Health Secretary. It led to the devastating decline in public services and the terrible record on growth and productivity which are at the heart of many of today’s ingrained problems. Hunt is replacing one failed Tory ideology – ‘libertarianism’, with another – ‘Austerity’, which the Tories admit failed. ![]() The markets have stabilised, but mortgage rates and inflation are still rising. ![]() If as expected energy bills double from next April to £4,350 for the average household, it will be disastrous for many low and middle-income earners, businesses, schools and public services. Hunt has now reduced the help for energy bills instead of asking the oil and gas giants to pay more from their vast and unexpected profits – which even the CEO of Shell agreed to.
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