Cameron claims he won’t cut the NHS – but he already has

David Cameron has been under pressure from some Cabinet Ministers (and former Cabinet Ministers) to cut the NHS. He’s reportedly responded to them by saying that NHS spending will be protected from cuts.

That would be more credible though if he hadn’t cut the NHS already. As the Evening Standard reported last June:

“Expenditure on the health service fell by about £26 million last year despite the promise in the Coalition agreement to increase it. The failure is highly embarrassing for the Government…”

Perhaps Cameron thinks we’ve forgotten?

 

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