Labour, still the party of the NHS

Originally posted @ 10:46 am, Thu 1st Oct 2009

NHS, the fifth part of my coverage of Gordon Brown's speech.

There is some astonishment at conference, given the numbers of extra doctors and nurses employed under Labour, the huge fall in waiting times for operations and the biggest ever hospital building programme, that David Cameron claims that the Tories can now call themselves the party of the NHS.

This of course has been undermined by Tory MPs going to the USA to call the NHS a sixty year mistake.