Last week, a video from which showed Nigel Farage calling for the privatisation of the NHS resurfaced on the Guardian. Farage was quick to say that he’d just been floating the idea, and it wasn’t Ukip’s policy. But the Labour leadership pointed out how disingenuous this was.
Labour MP Ian Austin also criticised the video. And said on Twitter that because he’d voiced his criticism, he had faced a death threat:
Despite this, Austin has stood his ground and said “UKIP would go even further than the Tories who have already pushed £12 million debts on our local hospital and are forcing local people to wait longer for everything from emergency treatment to chemotherapy.”
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